Last night, I was thinking about my grandfather. My grandfather passed away many years ago, but he remains a part of my life. There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think of him. [...]

I never knew his name until I read his obituary. You will think I’m shallow when you read this. You are probably right. 

The man has been a joke of sorts in our town since I [...]

Have you ever really listened to the rain? Have you memorized the sound of it as it pours down on the streets and the roofs and the leaves and the grass? Now it is a sunny [...]

It is a brooding, gray, rainy day. The house is quieter now than I can ever remember it. I feel older today. I’m tired. I’m pensive and anxious and I don’t know why. I’m feeling down [...]

So often we get caught up in our own concerns; we get caught in the trap of our busy lives, in the tangled web of our own routines, and in the worries and the concerns we [...]

When I was a kid we used to chant: “Sticks and stones can break my bones, but words can never hurt me.” Looking back, I realize how wrong we were, and now inept that common childhood [...]