Just as I was starting to settle into a new year, I was seized by this story on the radio. It was about a kind of pattern: how people who dive into natural disaster recovery--helping to produce miracles while doing so, and being initially heralded … [Continue reading]
For just about anything you can think of, somebody’s posted a YouTube video to show you how. It’s like we’ve moved Dad on-line and then made him available to everyone. Literally. I tuned in to one of them, Rob Kenny and his “Dad, How Do I?” … [Continue reading]
In a much quoted phrase, Rebecca Solnit said that: “Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.” I tried to track down where Solnit said this, but (apparently) once … [Continue reading]
It’s a kind of truism for a democracy like ours: When we’re divided we fall. We’re not at that precipice, but it sure feels closer. In my feelings about how likely the danger really is today, I’m grateful to have traveled around this … [Continue reading]
(photo by Issac Quesade/Unsplash) Is having a child today—or a grandchild—an expression of fervent hope or an involuntary invitation that you're handing down to someone who's unable to refuse it? It’s a fair question, relating to what are … [Continue reading]
