“Dust everywhere… and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my...

At a religious service last month, invited to pray silently, I shut my eyes, inhaled deeply and began my routine gamut of wishes:...

“Did you play tennis today in gym class?” I asked my 7-yo, as we walked into the house after school.  “No Daddy. You forgot to pack my...

“Everyone has two lives. The second one begins when you realize you have only one.”     Steven Sotloff. She Gets It. I wish everyone...

Goodbye Old Friend, 20″X23″ Acrylic, paper, antique book pages and cardboard on panel with original poetry, 2005, Stuart Sheldon “Speak...

“Hey, douchebag. There was a lot happening between Vietnam and Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom. Plenty of chances to...

I never went to war. Never killed a man. Never got shot at. Never watched a friend die mid-sentence. Why am I even going here? Because...

There are ways. Camping alone on Kauai with nothing but a surfboard and a backpack, I boiled water for ramen and huddled in a small...

The best way out is always through. Robert Frost A Bay Area friend’s daughter posted this on FB yesterday: I was going to post all the...

Stuart Sheldon, We Can’t Be Too Bold, acrylic and typing on Chinese funeral paper on panel, 12″x12″, 2003 “Are u happy, Daddy?” my...

By the time I hit 40 I was utterly over myself. Tired of the sound of my own voice. Bored stiff by my too-often-told lame jokes. I...

Silent gratitude isn’t much use to anyone. G.B. Stern. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving...