My talk today might serve as a counterpoint to Galen’s last Sunday. Galen spoke about the necessary connection between life and relationships, the flip side…
The craziness of CV-19 marches on. Basically, Trump is going to push for an early restart of the economy and a shutdown of social distancing;…
I am thinking about three things this morning: personal imperfection, CV-19, and diaries. Diaries bleeds into various kinds of personal writing, but for the moment…
We are beginning to make sense of the story of the story behind the coronavirus debacle. The President’s story as narrated in his address to…
Zen Koan: Never did a strawberry taste so good. This entry is mostly a public version of my daily diary—diary keeping is a practice I always…
I am reading Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth. I also just returned from a Unitarian Universalist service focusing on the climate crisis. Students organizing a…
I have almost finished The Time-Traveler’s Wife. It won’t have been my favorite book, rising up to The Art of Racing in the Rain(up for my all-time…
Dreams about my father and brother last night. I don’t really want to write about them. There was too much anger involved. In my dreams,…
This will never be my favorite day of the year, the anniversary of Sarah’s death eight years ago. I still push that day from my…