LoveLife

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...

Some mornings when I awaken, the grip of the night’s dreams and thoughts seem more real to me than the day that lies ahead. The feeling...

It’s a verse from one of Shakespeare’s sonnets: “Love is too young to know what conscience is; Yet who knows not, conscience is born of...

Maybe this strikes you as an odd question to ask. After all, aren’t we all worthy of being loved? Yes, and yes. But that isn’t exactly...

The other day I spent an hour or so with a friend of mine who recently left a relatively secure position with a firm we had both worked...

I am hardly the first person to write about this subject. Poets and songwriters have been musing about the topic for centuries. What is...

Not long ago I wrote about hiking in the Apennine mountains of Italy—a beautiful 9km walk from the village of Sextantio Santo Stefano di...

If you are a regular reader of this blog or listen to the podcast series, LoveLife, that Alvean Lyons and I host, you might expect that...