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Breakfast this week with a friend got me thinking about the expression, “There but for the Grace of God, go I”. When you stop and think...

My paternal grandfather was a perfectionist, at least that was the word I used before I knew what obsessive compulsive disorder meant. My...

As I set out to write this week’s post I passed a milestone. It is number 52—a year since I began this exploration. At times that year...

Yesterday, I attended a funeral for the father of a dear friend. He lived, as they say, a good life. He was a Harbor Pilot, a friend to...

Writing about Mr. Priest last week, put me in mind of my years in NH, where I worked on a project that was devoted to teaching students...

In my late twenties, I had the good fortune to meet and work with a gentleman by the improbable name of Hubert Priest. Mr. Priest, as he...

Convicted, it’s a funny word. Often, we associate it with someone who has committed a crime. And sometimes it is confused with...

The other day I got a text from a friend of many years. We reconnected later by phone and both of us ruefully admitted that we were long...

As tropes go, the reveal has to be the most overdone feature of every DIY show on Television. We sit impatiently through the commercial...

Let me start by conceding that I am no Proust. But you already know that from reading these posts. The title I chose for this...

Each morning as part of my daily ritual, I read from three daybooks. Two of these are Christian in their orientation while the third is...

Some time ago, I heard a choral piece that I had never heard before. The music, written by a contemporary composer, was deeply moving,...

You’ve heard the expression perhaps. “It’s a slippery slope”, suggesting that some circumstance or action poses a risk of accelerating a...

An experience I had recently got me thinking about scarcity and abundance. These two conditions, at face value, seem to be polar...

This epigram by the French novelist, Jean-Baptiste Karr is one many of us have likely quoted at one time or another. Roughly it...

I’ve written before on the subject of self-reliance, but today I want to come at this topic from another angle. Let me start by saying...

Have you ever found yourself wishing you could have a second chance, a get out of jail card, a do-over? It would be surprising if that...

When we talk about common sense today we often think of it as a kind of practical knowledge, in fact the often-heard phrase, “It’s just...

A while back I wrote about digital addiction, the increasing engagement we seem to have with digital devices, smartphones, tablets,...

It's been said that human perception of time is subjective. When we are pleasurably engaged, time moves far too quickly but when faced...