THE ROAD LESS TRIGGERED

redemption

Ten months ago today, I crashed. Riding my bike down a steep hill, approaching a highway with cross...

stress coping

The layers of abnormal are adding up. I’m snowblowing my driveway in the darkness before dawn—the whipping wind...

social media

We’re in trouble. I’m not referring to the global pandemic, nor the prospect of new lockdowns in our...

resilience

“Are you okay?” I’ve just flown over the handlebars of my bike to avoid being hit by a...

cancel everything

Cancel everything. When I read that headline in The Atlantic, it was my B.C./A.C. moment. Before Coronavirus. After...

Easter virus

It’s Saturday, the day between death and resurrection. Two thousand years ago, Holy Saturday was a day of...

Lent COVID-19

This year, instead of doing Lent, Lent is doing me. In my faith tradition, Lent is the spiritual...

mindfulness

I didn’t even look up. We were boarded and buckled in, our phones were on airplane mode, and...

As I write this, it’s mid-December 2019, and I turned 43 this week. The average American male lives...

personal growth

It was the best vacation I’d ever experienced, but I couldn’t figure out why until I looked down...