Sunday, May 13, 2012

• The future is rushing toward us -- and boy oh boy is it a lollapalooza!

  Sunday, May 19, 2013
• The art of patience is perhaps the hardest of all in politics and motherhood

  Sunday, May 12, 2013
• Life is full of surprises, good and bad, but often you have to look for them

  Sunday, May 5, 2013
• Spending a week in the city with a new rallying cry -- Boston Strong!

  Sunday, April 28, 2013

On specific holidays I, as do, I imagine, other columnists, try to say something to the occasion. This is part of an old piece I wrote, part new and part borrowed from an anonymous source I thought meaningful on today's Mother's Day. I hope you like it.

While there are extraordinary instances of personal sacrifice and love throughout history, there is, to my way of thinking,...