redemption

Ten months ago today, I crashed. Riding my bike down a steep hill, approaching a highway with cross...

cancel everything

Cancel everything. When I read that headline in The Atlantic, it was my B.C./A.C. moment. Before Coronavirus. After...

purpose

Something happened to me last summer, and it is still happening. In June, a friend sent me an...

loveable podcast episode 49

The so-called good life is a hollow promise. It’s empty of the things we desire most, like passion,...

death and resurrection

This year, the maples all turned purple. They usually die all at once in an explosion of blood...

loveable podcast episode 35

“Sometimes, we fight so we don’t have to feel. Sometimes, we trade jeers so we don’t have to...

the loveable podcast episode 16

“Ann Lamott once wrote, ‘The grace of age is radical self-acceptance.’ Life is messy and we human creatures...

loveable podcast episode 11

“There is a place inside of you where a better voice is telling a better story about you....

anger

Electronic communication is in its adolescence. Blogging is about twenty years old (the word “blog” was first coined...

January 6th. Four years ago today, I published my first blog post. I’d written only one and wasn’t...