self-awareness

The car almost blindsides me. I’m exiting the interstate on the way to my office, having just passed...

stress coping

The layers of abnormal are adding up. I’m snowblowing my driveway in the darkness before dawn—the whipping wind...

Easter virus

It’s Saturday, the day between death and resurrection. Two thousand years ago, Holy Saturday was a day of...

Lent COVID-19

This year, instead of doing Lent, Lent is doing me. In my faith tradition, Lent is the spiritual...

My oldest son Aidan is sixteen, and last weekend he did something that gives me great hope for...

loveable podcast episode 49

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

It’s an early summer night and we’re doing early summer sorts of things, like boating and tubing on...

The pain stabbed me awake. Near midnight, on an ordinary Sunday evening, I awoke to the feeling of...

loveable podcast

What if pain is an inevitable part of being alive, but suffering is not? And what if you...

mindfulness

The curves made me listen. I was on my first long bike ride in years, and my destination...