In about a month, we will stand on our front lanai to welcome our friend Fr. Kaleeg and his three young children back from Canada. We will follow a simple Hawaiian ritual to unite our families: we will open our front door and and our arms and say, “We receive you into our home.” I [...]

God Speaks God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me. Flare up like flame and make big shadows I can move in. [...]

That was then: This is now: These photos are of my daughter Anna, and her friend Ella, who is visiting from Victoria, British Columbia, with her dad, Fr. Kaleeg. It’s hard for me to express the rush of emotion I experience when I see these two together. It’s bittersweet, really, because Ella was Anna’s very [...]

Here is photo of our beloved Pepe, engaged in one of his favorite pastimes, sleeping on our bed. It wasn’t enough for him simply to be able to join us at the foot of the bed like more respectable dogs. Instead, he insisted that he sleep under the covers. Especially in the early morning, when [...]

On October 15, families all over the world light candles at 7:00 p.m. in their own time zones in honor of babies that have died in the womb or within the first few years of life. Last year, we lit a candle at home, and encouraged bereaved friends to do the same. But ever since [...]