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This is one of my guardian angel’s favorite passages, from Kahlil Gibran’s “The Prophet.” I think it reads much like the Beatitudes. Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the selfsame well from which your laughter rises was oftentimes filled with your tears. And how else can it be? The deeper that sorrow carves into…

Thanks to Beyond Blue reader Dawn Andrea who wrote this e-mail to me over the weekend regarding the Beatitudes: We think happiness is getting what we want, when we generally don’t know what we want, or what is good for us. God knows what is good for us. I think when we do get what…

This is a reprint of Holly’s original piece “Goodbye Noodle,” which you can get to by clicking here. It wasn’t her fault, of course, but Noodle, my family’s glorious white standard poodle, died at a very inconvenient time, just when I needed her most. Almost nine years before, just as I was moving out to…

Holly wrote the following piece during her husband Rob’s deployment in 2003, as well as a series of provocative pieces on NPR. To go to her original Beliefnet article, “Lucky/Cursed,” click here. To check out her NPR clips, click here. I have just this minute found out that my husband Rob, in Kuwait with his…
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