On Father’s Day
Hello, dear reader. I'd apologize for my long absence, but the truth is, this is how most of my blogging efforts end up. I'll endeavor to do better moving forward. Today is Father's Day, and because I happen to have lived for nearly four decades with a remarkable...
On Grief, and the Grieving
Mostly, this blog is about things I want to learn. Those are the exciting lessons, the ones that get you out of bed in the morning, fired up for whatever's coming next. But there are other lessons. Lessons no one signs up for, but that life enrolls us in anyway. Today...
On Spoons and Band-aids
It's Pinterest's fault. Maybe also a little bit the fault of my friend Staci, who pinned a beautiful photo of wooden spoons. Either way, I happened to see the pin sometime in the spring of 2014, just as I was looking to pick up a new hobby. Somehow, I got the bright...
On Photography
When I was around 11 or 12, my father won a camera in a photo contest. Every year, after the air show in Oklahoma City (the now-defunct Aerospace America), photographers entered their air show photos into a contest, and the winners had their images hung at the...
A note from a life-long learner
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a...