At this time of year most of us are getting ready to celebrate holidays, potentially spend more time with family, and engage in familiar traditions. While many of us have a great affinity for the holidays, we may also feel extra stressed because there is a busyness to the season. Traffic has gotten heavier because people are rushing to the stores to buy things. Everybody's racing to get their final work tasks done for the year. It can be a time of rushing around and not being able to have any...

Sometimes I slip into the abyss... Or perhaps that's not entirely accurate because I don't want to give the impression of being despairing and lost. But I can get caught up in all that life throws at me. I'm just wading as best I can. I'm keeping up with work commitments, home commitments, and finding space to keep in touch with those I love. In all of that, it can be so easy to forget about joy, about the pursuit of joy. Joy still finds me in these times. I attribute that in part to the fact...

I've been thinking a lot about truth-telling. Not the dramatic, movie-scene kind of truth-telling. But the simple act of saying what's...