Divine Only and Difficult Always
“Not Me,” I said as the words left my lips in a nearly breathless gasp. The day was Thursday, April 16, 2020. I was in my home sitting in my kitchen chatting with my wife […]
Mental Health
Vicarious Victors
When I learned that mental health was one of the topics for this series, I didn’t know if I could write about it in first person. I’d subconsciously limited mental health concerns to things like […]
Big Wrongs, Big Words
I have always been captivated by big, grand, absolutist words. Words that name clear edges or hard stops or lines crossed—the finite, unequivocal, forbidden, unforgivable, irrevocable. Words that evoke how something is clear or clear-cut […]
Baked C.H.I.P.
‘I do not know if I am making him nearly as happy as he is making himself,’ I am thinking, while halfway listening to my Zoom meeting and halfway watching Baked. He lays lopsided, just […]