Alana Worth listens well. She knows how to read a room. In her job as a chaplain at Good Samaritan Hospital in Lafayette, she’s not in the business of cajoling. Or pleading. Or arm twisting. “We never proselytize,” she promises, her sweetly mellow tone bubbling up. “We help guide patients through to find their strength […]
It was indeed noble of President Lincoln, in 1863, to declare the last Thursday in November a national holiday. Wait. What? In recent years, controversy has swirled around what really happened at Plymouth Rock. The list of Pilgrims' misdeeds feature everything from Christian fanaticism to child abuse and the cruel treatment of Native Americans. Much later, Thomas Jefferson, who owned 600 slaves, fathered at least six children with one slave, Sally Hemings. Like the rest of us, Pilgrims and presidents are broken vessels, helping themselves to forbidden fruit. Which brings me to an easy peasy Thanksgiving quiz as a public service.
Being part of a tour group is not for the faint hearted. I found that out after our recent tour of Portugal. Oh! The Mateus Rose! The cork factory! (Notice how I cleverly linked the two?) The iconic custard tarts! The monstrous hotel bathtubs where you had better hire a spotter to help you scale […]
The world is split into two distinct camps: those who dream about being their own boss and those who become so terrorized at the notion they hightail it to the local gym where they spend all their free time de-stressing on the rowing machine. That’s why it’s incumbent on me to salute a family I […]