Today is Father’s Day, the day we set aside to honor and offer gratitude for our fathers, however they have come into our lives – biological fathers, stepfathers, adoptive or foster fathers, grandfathers, spiritual fathers and all the other men – relatives and friends who have helped to fill that role in our lives. Loraine Bottorff McNeill writes, “We are shaped by their presence and their absence, by how they choose to act and when they abstain, what they say and when they

Last Thursday after dinner while we were doing dishes and bagging up lunch I declared to my husband, Chuck, “Tomorrow, I write.” I say this most Thursday evenings at some point! “What will you write about?” - the next logical question because he is nothing if not logic driven. “About completeness,” I said, “and about how the flowers in our Flower Celebration are complete and how they are a metaphor for our completeness,” I rambled on in a stream of consciousness sort of way