Some teacher, sometime along the way, likely soured you on poetry. It was done by making you read stiff poems, written in an alien parlance with old-fashioned metaphors, and then insisting you explain … [Read more...]
Dance Interrupted
There is a dance between our dreams and vocation that can be interrupted when ambition cuts in. Sometimes we stumble upon what becomes our joy when pursuing a dream from childhood. I knew a … [Read more...]
Healthcare in the Days of Rage
In these angry days of national division, I have been thinking about that old trope of crazy advice from Jesus, to “love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray … [Read more...]
Dog & Cat Owners Unite!
So cold the snow crystalized, a weightless carpet of white gleaming diamonds in vivid moonlight and again in the even colder morning wringing moisture from the air. Thank you, Rabia, for getting my … [Read more...]
Contending with Mental Illness
“Co-dependency” emerged as a buzzword in my profession more than a decade ago, and became a catch-all phrase for a dysfunctional congregation. The concept springs from studies observing the long-term … [Read more...]
Getting Uncomfortable
What a difference a week can make. Last Wednesday I extolled the wrongly maligned frigid cold of winter and its peculiar graces, and Monday this week, I walked my dog along the Geneva lakefront in … [Read more...]
The Grace of Winter
I read somewhere along the line about wintering strategies for some tribes in Northern Michigan, back when life was good and European invaders few and far between. This was up in Michilimackinac, a … [Read more...]
Some Parenting Advice
It flashes back in my memory as if just yesterday: a six-month-old baby on my shoulder and a three-year old holding my hand as we walked into the grocery. Without warning the three-year-old collapsed … [Read more...]
Mary Oliver, Thank You
Mary Oliver, thank you. The simple elegance of your poems exquisitely mirrors what is miraculous in nature – that out of seemingly simple elements placed in fortunate proximity and serendipitous … [Read more...]
When I Am Dead and Gone
Did you ever ask yourself: When you are dead and gone what will they say about you? Surely at a funeral, or reading someone’s obituary? Maybe you played that group ice-breaker game in which you’re … [Read more...]
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