It’s a Saturday in September, and we’re moving my oldest son Aidan into Chicago on his 19th birthday....
I’m sitting at the kitchen table, on the eve of Advent, laughing with friends, knowing I’ll be waking...
On the one-year anniversary of the COVID quarantine, here’s a chapter from True Companions about the wonders of...
I almost completely ignored her. It was near the beginning of a very busy Wednesday. I had behind-the-scenes...
“Family dinners.” I’d spent the day at a dads retreat, talking about how to intentionally shape the culture...
It’s Saturday, the day between death and resurrection. Two thousand years ago, Holy Saturday was a day of...
This year, instead of doing Lent, Lent is doing me. In my faith tradition, Lent is the spiritual...
Something happened to me last summer, and it is still happening. In June, a friend sent me an...
This year, the maples all turned purple. They usually die all at once in an explosion of blood...
It’s nearing the end of summer vacation, and I’m out of ideas. For my kids, ages eight and...