May is the month in which I become most fully convinced that spring has arrived. The first flowers of early spring are past or passing, trees are budding out into leaves and flowering bushes are reaching full bloom. Graduation weather. A passage of time…

Hope springs eternal. I know, because as a baseball fan I have mostly pinned my hopes on either the Baltimore Orioles or Boston Red Sox. They are both American League (East) teams, which means they must face the dreaded NY Yankees. For 8 of my first 10 years as a child, the Yankees won the pennant…

One of the unavoidable, healthy tensions in any community that has a tradition with deep roots in history and a commitment to serve the current world is upholding the enduring values of that tradition…