In a few weeks, I will turn another year older. It isn’t a milestone birthday, which means it is generally one of those birthdays that blends in with all the rest and is both awesome and inconsequential at the same time. It is one of the “something” birthdays. A…
I heard the news about Orlando in bits and pieces yesterday morning. A headline on Facebook. A talking head on the television. A conversation at brunch. But I didn’t understand. Maybe it was a self-protection mechanism. I was in DC for a conference — flying home that afternoon –…
They say the road to perfection is paved with mistakes and bad decisions. Or something like that. In any event, I make lots of mistakes. And bad decisions. Stupid mistakes. Silly mistakes. Laugh-out-loud mistakes. Just last week, for instance, I made the stupid mistake to try to drive on a…
I cried this morning. I cried for no reason and for all the reasons. Sometimes that happens. I had been reading through this essay that I will read on Jennifer Scharf’s podcast later today. I wanted to practice reading through it. But also, I wanted to remember. I started reading and with each…
When I first started this website four years ago, I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. Truthfully, I’m not sure that I’m any closer to knowing what I’m doing today than I was back then. But whatever. I knew I wanted to write. But about what? All I…
Last fall while I was out for a walk, I passed a young mom on the street. When I first saw her from a half a block away, I thought about how lovely it must be to be out for a mid-afternoon walk on a warm and sunny afternoon. As…