THE ESSAYIST

Just the other day I was watching Mary Poppins with my 4 year old daughter. While it was the magic, and the songs, and the penguins that enthralled the young girl, I, on the other hand, was left wondering about the Sister Suffragette scene – particularly the lyrics of the song: “Our daughter’s daughters will […]

At a time when more and more Americans are choosing to refer to themselves as non-religious but spiritual, which only makes me wonder what being “spiritual” means to them and especially to the post-millennial “e-generation” or more recently the “selfie-(look at me) generation.”   Moving back to the Houston home that I grew up in […]