In this final post on Hope, I’ll share some of the things I’ve hoped for, how they differed from one another, and how they turned out. Let me begin with this quotation, which is something I could have—and wish I had—written: “Like many, over the course of my life, I’ve spent a fair amount of…

Some days ago I was sitting on our back deck—one of my favorite places in the whole world—soaking up the sunshine on a cold February day, watching gratefully as our two dogs wandered about our spacious, fenced-in back yard in the privacy made possible by the “green screen” provided by the semi-circle of trees that…