A friend and I were talking politics.  Because even though just about every conversation with almost everyone in my life…

My brother, Joe, reminded me of an exchange around the breakfast table during our childhood. Dad had just made a…

I’ve been touched this week by the thought of bigger tables.  The idea that we are building, both metaphorically and…

I hit a wall this week. I crashed into an emotional-psychological wall with this thought: “I just can’t do it…

You may have seen some of the artistic collaborations of artist Tom Curtis and his young sons, Dom and Al. …

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a yard sign supposedly translated from Chinese, with the tranquil and evocative message:…

Earlier this week, Travis and I were biking home on a perfect summer evening.   We had been out at…

A few weeks ago several of us were waiting on Zoom for the rest of the team to join us…

A lawn sign appeared a few years ago, becoming popular across the internet: Chinese characters with the quaint English rendering…

Sometimes it seems like everything has changed and nothing will ever be the same. From another angle, though, it looks…

I don't remember why, but for some reason, I was looking up the arbitrary standards by which non-metric measurements were…

Our one-year-old kitty, Danny, was a skinny little guy when he joined our family six months ago.  His Instagram handle…