When I travel by plane, I love to peer out the window. Two of my cousins are commercial pilots, as was their dad. One of them...

The teens at the gym have no idea what they are to me, and that’s just fine. I don’t need them to know. I just need them to show up at...

Little Baby, I saw you on the news. You were in the first video of your brand-new life, with a gray look about you and a sag to your body...

Carpe Diem. Don’t sweat the small stuff. Live life to the fullest. Choose wisely. We know all this. We suggest it to others. We remind...

It was getting dark the other day, so that meant I’d better get up from the writing mind cloud I was in, put on my shoes, and go water my...

I’ve been feeling extra blue lately, and I’m finally willing to admit there’s something to it. Like all denial, I figured it’d just go...

Can you imagine what it must be like to lift off the ground, move up through the atmosphere, up to the general line that demarcates the...

I rummaged through a storage box of greeting cards recently and came across a stack of cards featuring work by modern artist Henri...

I woke up the other morning much too early in the dark. I instantly did what I do when I wake too early — feel a nameless feeling well up...

Last month I was on a trip where I stayed in a lowkey hotel near a park situated at the edge of a major airport runway. Most days, I’d go...

For decades I used running to withstand the Winter Blues. As a teenager, I intuited it had an effect, though I wouldn’t learn it was an...

The other day I went to a memorial service for a long-ago friend. I looked around to see who I recognized and spotted two faces. Once I...

Sometimes I’m a handwringing worrier, other times I just go for it. I might stay stuck in fear of the unknown, or I might jump off the...

It’s been a multifaceted few weeks. Life was many things rolled into one — inspiration, pride, tragedy, community, family. Gratitude....

It's the gratitude time of year, even though gratitude is every time of year. However, having explicit moments to remember to say thanks...

One of the two hardest things to learn, I think, is how to meet folks where they are at this moment. The other is meeting yourself there,...

My big extended family had a baby recently. While little cherubic uterine-dweller Danny slowly inched his way toward the outside world,...

Thursday is Joke Day has been going strong for over a year now. I started this on Sept. 9, 2021. Every Thursday I post a joke for my two...

Today’s my last day on Gus pee duty as my neighbors arrive home tonight. I’ve stepped in to take Gus out for breaks while my neighbor’s...

I have my own special rabbit hole next to my desk. It has a small opening, like any rabbit hole, and if I’m not careful a wheel on my...