
Looking Backward
“You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard For a few of you, perhaps, the byline you just passed may
“You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.” ~ Soren Kierkegaard For a few of you, perhaps, the byline you just passed may
“A journey to the underworld is an epic convention,” I tell my world literature students on day two of class. Throughout the semester, we puzzle
In another day and another time, the buildings crowded on the block made all kinds of sense. The school’s own precious history makes clear that
We keep having the same conversation while we are adventuring around the country. It’s about technology and our kids. My sons both have (extremely old)
In the summer of 2016, I took an inelegant tumble down a flight of stairs and broke my foot. Badly. So badly, in fact, that
Early on an August morning, I left our cottage in the dark to go see Peter. I drove up past Mountain Grove to get on
The stories of the wittiest are probably false. Oscar Wilde allegedly said, “Either this wallpaper goes or I do,” but those present reported nothing and
It was a Saturday, around Christmas time, years ago, and my three-year-old daughter Amy and I are in the car picking up our pizza order.
A few months ago I was coaching a pastor who is also an artist. We meet once a month to work on her goals. My
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