Maine Your Days Be Merry...Bright and Peaceful

A winter's view while snowshoeing along the Maine Huts Trail

How to respond to grief

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and nights. And no one said a word, for they saw that his suffering was too great for words. [Job 2:13]

Newtown, Conn. -- the best reason for gun control

I have a vivid memory of when my son, as a five-year-old, and I went for a walk. His small hand wasn't big enough to hold mine, so he wrapped all the fingers on his right hand around my left pinky. That's how small a kindergartner is. They are tiny and defenseless. One man shot and killed up to 20 of them this morning in Newtown, Conn. No matter what is uncovered in the police investigation, it won't change anything. Beautiful, innocent little lives were ripped away from us, and our big hands couldn't do anything to stop it.

What do you think about gun control now?