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Metered Sins
October 27, 2019
Poetry’s a sneaky bastard. All the time sidling up to one on false pretenses — ‘It’s just the one’ … ‘We won’t intrude’ — and
Total Recall
September 24, 2019
Don’t stop me if you’ve heard this one … There was a woman who claimed to talk with God — not to Him, but with
Touch
August 3, 2019
In Boston in the Back Bay on Boylston the Trader Joe’s looks built for the bite-sized. The storefront is not one-third the size of the
Didn’t Graduate
July 31, 2019
Hadda a girl once, this was during college. Darkest, longest hair, biggest brownest eyes … Not that kind of story, whatever kind you thought. Being
What Price Anger
July 24, 2019
Anger cost small for years then nearly all. Like decades of tossing nickels and dimes in a 5-gallon water bottle until it can’t be carried
Why Not Two Cupcakes?
July 22, 2019
Something we know well and another I know little. Remember … re-member … before we begin Dallas Willard on knowing — namely … named-ly …
For M
July 15, 2019
The great story is the search by the lover for the beloved. I love M. I am in love with M. [angry as well; in
Do Piece — Anger (Buechner)
September 6, 2018
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll
Do Piece — Community (Barth)
September 3, 2018
They crucified him with the criminals. Do you know what this implies? Don’t be too surprised if I tell you that this was the first Christian
Do Piece — Love (Frankl)
August 26, 2018
Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can become fully aware of the
Un Success Full
January 26, 2017
Thomas Merton was asked once to contribute to a book on success — specifically a statement of how he’d achieved it in his own life.