For Melissa Hale-Spencer

How often has it been said that, on St. Patrick’s Day, “Everybody’s a little Irish?”

The late Sally Gray, my mother-in-law, used lard for her pies.

In 2000, when I sent the completed manuscript of my “Restorative Justice: Healing the Foundations of Our Everyday Lives” — written with long-time friend and colleague Larry Tifft — to publisher/edi

In the winter of 2021, the Washington-based Pew Research Center conducted a survey of adults in the United States wanting to know who among them had read a book in the past year — or even part of o

“All unjust claims to taxes, rents, and tribute …  nullified … a self-yielding and abundant nature as well as a radically transformed human nature in which greed, envy, and hatred will disappear.”

For Jimmy Kimmel

For John Francis Sullivan Jr.

Walt Whitman appeared in a dream tonight

In front of a mausoleum dressed in sadness

Weeping for the lost soul of America.
 

Uncle Walt! Uncle Walt! I appealed

For Zio Pietro Bonventre

When I saw an essay by Joan Didion in the Dec. 5, 1976 New York Times Book Review called “Why I Write,” I was taken in right away.

For two great teachers:

Arthur Willis and Lydia Tobler