There is nothing like feeling bad to make one appreciate feeling good.

Billy Tipton was a woman. The jazz musician who made a living playing music spent a lifetime playing “pretend.” 

In June 1960, Radcliffe College dedicated a fountain in memory of Anne Sullivan Macy. Anne was the teacher who transformed Helen Keller – a deaf, blind, and mute girl – into the woman who traveled, wrote, and spoke all over the world.

You can find Paul’s friends and God’s heart on the back porch. At the end of the apostle’s letter to the church in Rome he takes time to greet men and women who have marked his life. These are everyday people whose lives could be summed up in the paradoxical phrase, ordinary greatness.

Dorothy tapped her heels together three times and said the words that put her world back together: There’s no place like home

I went home. After two decades away, I stood in the sanctuary of the little Baptist church of my Florida roots.