There’s an old adage that says what you love about your spouse before marriage is the same thing that you’ll eventually hate after getting married. I cringe at the harshness of the word ‘hate’, so would use despise or loathe as slightly more nuanced words. For anyone who’s been married more than a few years,…

[I wrote this essay soon after the fall of the Bashir Assad regime in Syria in December, 2024] Tears fall as I write this. I weep, glasses off, rivulet’s running down my cheeks, the room around me unseen. I’m lost in the pain of others as I read article on my phone – “Syria’s former…

Winter in the snowy north elicits a variety of feelings and desires. Love it, hate it, endure it, marvel in it – take your choice. As people age, I’ve observed that many, believers in God or not, let the negatives start to overwrite the positives. And some of the negatives become significant, life coloring, especially…