by Jack Moline | Jun 11, 2020 | Opinion
Like every rabbi, I have attended to bereaved family members in almost every circumstance of death. Some deaths approach slowly and inevitably, like a train arriving across a plain with a distant horizon. Some deaths burst onto the scene like a balloon popping at...
by Trisha Miller Manarin | Apr 24, 2020 | Opinion
Our family experienced a holiday like no other on Christmas Day 2015. It was an unusually warm Dec. 25 in metro D.C. We shared the holiday dinner with our Catholic neighbors two doors down from our townhouse. My mother and my neighbor Caroline’s mother were both with...
by Mitch Randall | Mar 26, 2020 | Opinion
Robert “Bob” Stephenson passed away on Friday, March 20. Besides my immediate family, Mr. Stephenson and his wife, Norma, changed the trajectory of my life more than anyone. They are some of the most wise, kind and generous people I have ever met. For 11 years, I had...
by Brent McDougal | Jan 31, 2020 | Opinion
As it turns out, lost people really do walk around in circles. I was recently listening to a radio interview that described an experiment from about 10 years ago. The researchers wondered if it’s true that walkers tend to circle back again and again in a big forest if...
by Jack Moline | Dec 10, 2019 | Opinion
Over the course of our 40-plus years of welcoming guests into our home, my wife and I have been the recipients of many tokens of appreciation. I was taught to call them “hostess gifts,” though I am certain that nomenclature is outdated. The custom, however, has...
