Remember last year’s Easter weekend?

That was a text from my sister-by-choice (mine, maybe not hers) Sara Capen Salomons this morning. A little, I texted back, but I didn’t, not really. I mean, it was Easter this time last year, right? Chocolate bunnies, kids’ baskets? But then she reminded me, Sara who has more soul than I ever will. This time …

In which Jesus is crucified

Yesterday, listeners to WNPR’s “Where We Live” heard Sara Salomons, Journey Home development consultant and a great friend of mine, talk about recent efforts in Connecticut to end chronic homelessness. They also heard about Sal Pinna, a man I met in a class I taught some  years back. He’s been homeless for 20 years, since …