“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.” – Simone Weil “When you belong to a place,

By Gregory Love God is our one true love. We were made out of God’s love, and for that love. But we don’t always know

We chose the perfect day to hike the Dune Climb Trail at Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore: seventy degrees, light breeze, a little gauzy cloud cover

I’m guessing many of you have a photo app that likes to remind you of memories from years past. This morning my wife texted me

By David Pettit The problem with many poems, my instructor explained, is certainty. The poet tries too hard to say something; is too sure of

Recently here on The Twelve, colleague Jim Bratt gave a glowing review of Ron Chernow’s brilliant new biography Grant.  Among other things, Bratt noted that

According to researchers at Queen’s University in Ontario, sleep deprivation, can in some respects impair our judgment as much as being legally drunk. As a

By Gregory Love I am reading Under The Mercy, (1988), Sheldon Vanauken’s sequel to his 1977 award-winning book A Severe Mercy. In A Severe Mercy, Vanauken

I grew up in Rapid City, South Dakota, near the edge of the Black Hills. Just behind my home was a church building that housed