A Message in the WallsOur family recently had a great surprise. My mom was having a bathroom in her home refurbished. The workman pulled out the medicine cabinet…Nov 10, 2022Nov 10, 2022
In praise of graceful exitsThis is a crazy week end, with two of my favorite UU ministers delivering their final messages to their congregations today. Another…Jul 24, 2022Jul 24, 2022
Oh, happy (wedding) day!We’re coming up on a week since my son Pete and Marissa got married and, I have to say, it was a damn good wedding. Now, I don’t have the…Jul 24, 2022Jul 24, 2022
Why Cats?I get why dogs are man’s best friend. Back 30,000 years ago, when we were a shaggy but sharp biped with an uncertain future, dogs saw…Apr 13, 20221Apr 13, 20221
When checking via Slack on some work this morning, a colleague wrote back that a good friend and…I say a lot in the course of a day and I’m pretty good at saying the right thing and avoiding the wrong thing. And yet, I really don’t…Apr 7, 2022Apr 7, 2022
The Most Amazing Person I’ve Ever Known Has DiedMy family moved one town over, from Hazlet to Matawan, in 1973, when I was in first grade. It was a “made-it” kind of move, in 1973 terms…Jan 15, 2022Jan 15, 2022
The ‘Dog’ Days of WinterVirginia and I kicked off our quarantine (a nephew we saw over the Christmas weekend tested positive Sunday for covid, so we’re sitting and…Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022
Some ‘Mountain-Climbing’ Advice from Writer George SaundersListened to George Saunders’ first collection of short stories, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, this summer and all the things I enjoy about…Jan 7, 2022Jan 7, 2022
6 Thoughts on Jerry Maguire, 26 Years LaterVirginia and I continued on a torrid pace of movie-watching, this time watching Jerry Maguire with friends on New Year’s Night. One couple…Jan 6, 2022Jan 6, 2022
Where Are We in the Pandemic?With omicron burning through Americans, vaccinated and unvaccinated (though, sadly, with very different outcomes), it feels like a total…Jan 6, 2022Jan 6, 2022