The fact that many a man who goes his own way ends in ruin means nothing to one who has a vocation. He must obey his own law. Anyone with a vocation hears the voice of the inner man. He is called. Carl Gustaf Jung *** How many social media…

I awoke this morning to discover I mismanaged putting away one of my contact lenses. There it lay, shriveled and dry as a potato chip, glued to the side of my lens case. …

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. Mark Twain I often hear nowadays, people being…

Introduction In 2022, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released an extensive “standards of care” document used by medical and insurance professionals to guide decisions they make on behalf of their patients and clients. Clinicians are divided over the guideline’s cautious stance on teens. In recent years there has…

The indelible marks we carry into love My eldest daughter has it now, a black, oily hulk of steel and ink — a piece of history, a relic, a machine from a time past, before computers, before Facebook, before digital. …

The story of how three deaths led to an invention The last time I saw my brother was on a boat in the middle of the Severn River near Annapolis, Maryland. It was summer 1992, and the family had gathered to spread his ashes. John had died from AIDS a…

A Love Story — She reached out and touched his hand, the way she always did at this time of day when the afternoon shadows grew long and smoky and warm. He continued to read, but she knew, almost as if she could feel it through her hands, that he loved her touch. There…