Please read through and comment if you would have done what I did or something differently if you were in my place...

It was as perfect a day as Houston could get. Ellen, like she does every year, was throwing a birthday luncheon for her daughter and my sweet, kind and fun friend Mollie at the historic, quaint Bayou Club.  It was a perfect example of how celebrating...

Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year, Valentine’s Day are all wonderful times of the year to celebrate life, love, family, friends and society at large. However we (read I) somehow have a tendency to “over-do” the doing and “under-do” the being...

Being raised in a Syrian Christian family, advent (the 4 weeks leading to Christmas Day) was a season of fasting and preparing our hearts to receive baby Jesus. Denying ourselves in itself is not a virtue but it certainly prepares a path for virtues to follow....