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My Friend Theo and I were waiting in front of the library for his parents when a teenager walked up to us and asked us if we had any valuables or money. "No," we answered.

A FEW YEARS AGO my aunt made a study of our family genealogy. She traced back ten generations or more and assembled a great number of facts, which she sent in a thick notebook to each of our family members.

When I Was Young , I decided I wanted to have three children and adopt five more. It didn't quite work out that way.

IT LOOKED LIKE A PERFECT TIME to start a family. We'd been married four years and my husband was finishing graduate school.

Walter Robinson is Musical Director and Composer-in-Residence at The Mary Baker Eddy Library for the Betterment of Humanity. He studied composition and double bass at the New England Conservatory of Music graduate school, and then spent eight years as composer-in-residence at the W.

I Used To Wonder why this turned out differently for me than it did for Helen. Did she pray better than I did? Is that why she got her man? But then I remembered that our goal was not to find husbands, but to improve our dismal view of men.

It Seemed that everywhere I looked, I saw terrific women dating less-than-terrific men. Men who'd left their wives for younger women.

GIVING UP WORRY is one of the things I'd like to do more consistently. One of the worst things about worry is that it takes my mental time away from more productive thinking.

SOME YEARS AGO , my community was hit with a media blitz about an impending flu epidemic. Fear-filled conversations among my colleagues were stimulated by the media coverage.

Anyone who has seen the mobs of reporters that follow celebrities and politicians knows that the press can be an overwhelming presence. Take a moment—and a bit of poetic license—to imagine what it would have been like to be a reporter in Jesus' time and to be covering the "Jesus beat.