Far from my usual blog offerings, this post is painfully personal and yet full of wonder. I offer it as a sign of hope amidst the...

My father was a careful man.  An architect.  A woodworker.  A builder. And a fount of axioms.  Given his passions, one favorite was...

My seminary classmate Don awoke one morning to discover that the left half of his body was numb.  He could barely move his limbs, and so...

The work of restoring our spirit and keeping our republic begins anew next Wednesday.

I finally remembered something I learned a long, long time ago.    Like many, I have been truly mystified that tens of millions of my...

We’ve been watching the Olympic Trials on TV.  I am particularly dazzled by the ability of gymnasts to do what they do.  Someone flips...

While everyone’s busy whining about their lives and how old President Biden is, it's easy to forget that he stepped into the ugliest mess...

Why do the media give one second of air time or one column-inch of print to the Iowa primary?  When only one out of seven Republicans in...

And what, you may be wondering, is “passive greed”? Look, I know you’re not nakedly greedy, a rapacious monster trying to grab all you...

Inches from my left shoulder, on the sill of the window here in my study, rests a poem that I typed out and posted there.  I re-read the...