We watched “2012” the other night, the latest in what seems to be a growing industry of apocalyptic films and books foretelling the end of civilization as we know it. Coming as it does…

John Edwards. Tiger Woods. Jesse James. Lots of high-profile marital shenanigans of late. The most recent involves actress Sandra Bullock, who barely had time to celebrate her new best-acting Oscar before word came of hubby…

The flyer in my mailbox read: “Because life is too busy to waste time cleaning your own home.” And it pictured a happy team of immigrants busily cleaning a modern middle-class McMansion while the…

Marriage is work. If you’re married, how many times have you heard this expression or shared it with others? More important, do you believe this to be true? Which parts of a relationship constitute…

Some years ago I had a remarkable dream. In it I was a raindrop tumbling from a great, gray cloud and I felt ecstatically free the way one can in flying dreams. Then, suddenly,…

In the spring of 1999 I and another member of the American Red Cross boarded a flight bound for the Balkan conflict in Kosovo. A veteran of many humanitarian assignments, I felt no particular…