Faithful Departed: Gabriel García Márquez
Capturing the imagination of adults is how Gabriel García Márquez made himself known in the literary world. It was the smallest details and the honesty…
read moreFaithful Departed: Joan Rivers
For a long time, Joan Rivers made me uncomfortable. As a generally polite, social rule-abider who tends to be overly concerned about what others think,…
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Faithful Departed: Oscar de la Renta
“The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.” These words from Oscar de la Renta are the words of a man who…
read moreFaithful Departed: James Foley
It is a story we have heard many times before. Someone is brutally killed and paradoxically lives on as a symbol of hope. It is…
read moreFaithful Departed: Robin Williams and Philip Seymour Hoffman
It’s never the moments we expect that stay with us; it’s never the things we plan for that leave the indelible impressions. It’s not receiving…
read moreFaithful Departed: Nelson Mandela
Back in December of 2003, about a month before I travelled to South Africa to work in schools as a Peace Corps volunteer for two…
read moreFaithful Departed: Marcia Wallace
“I’m no beauty. I’m no genius. I can’t sing. I can’t dance,” Marcia Wallace said years ago at a speaking engagement in Indiana, “But, it…
read moreFaithful Departed: Cory Monteith
Music has always been an integral part of my life. My brother, father and I all sing. Growing up, my parents had me listening to…
read moreFaithful Departed: Nora Ephron
“It’s hard for men to be friends with attractive women,” he said. I wondered if I qualified as “attractive.” In that moment, sitting across from…
read moreFaithful Departed: Sally Ride
If I ascend to the heavens, you are there. If I fly with the wings of the dawn and alight beyond the sea, Even there…
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