All of our nation’s veterans are due our gratitude for their service in preserving the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. This Veteran’s Day, I pay tribute to my hero, my father, James Edward Cross, gone from this world but not forgotten.
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Christmas is one of the most important days of the Church year, second only to Easter itself. Celebrating the birth of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is the culmination of the mystery of the incarnation, the feast of God becoming flesh. The Divine choosing to become one of us. Emmanuel, God-With-Us. And so, we feast
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Today the world is celebrating International Women’s Day and social media is alive with thoughts about what that means to different people. And, of course, the opinions and commentary are wildly diverse not only in content but in tone as well. They range the gamut from deliberately provocative and outrageous to a flagrant disdain for
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Eric Carle’s most popular storybook character, the Very Hungry Caterpillar, is having a birthday celebration at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville (on exhibit until February 23, 2020). For 50 years now both children and adults have been delighted with the little caterpillar who eats his way through quite a feast as he grows and
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Saturday night we had a small, intimate Christmas dinner party, and like all dinner parties, it was an all-day preparation event. The morning began like most Saturdays do, with early morning coffee and quiet time, reflecting on and giving thanks for this wonderful life that we have been privileged to live. Then followed the division
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I stared in astonishment at the photograph my elderly aunt had recently produced for me from her collection of family photos. The 18-year old woman gazing back at me projected confidence and strength, and bore an uncanny physical resemblance in some of her features to me. The photograph itself, taken in 1912, is 107 years
A few days after living a brief stretch of life with no margins, and right before I was to pick up my little 4 year old granddaughter to go play at the park for the morning, I backed my beautiful Toyota 4-Runner into the trailer hitch of a parked truck. I plowed right into it,
