Small Moments of Great Reward

When Anne Morrow Lindbergh's older sister Elisabeth died young, Anne wrote: A long long week, so strange and unreal and artificial now, ...

I wrote last week about my brother, who was rapidly coming to the end of his days. Dale died Tuesday night, after two long days of slipping ...

My older brother is dying. He was diagnosed with metastasized lung cancer earlier this summer and began treatment immediately. The oncologis...

Rosh Hashanah gathering  A month ago I was in Portland for eight days. Five weeks later, the immediacy of the trip has faded. Rather, I ...

I wrote the below post the day after the Sandy Hook shootings in Connecticut back in December, 2012. Since then, there have been multiple ma...

When Benjamin was a toddler, we went through long stretches of time where, simply put, his father and I overdid it with him. I'm not t...

I have been road tripping all over the continent this month: out to Portland, Oregon; Portland, Oregon to Rochester, Minnesota; Rochester, M...