We’ve all had the experience. We sit down with someone we just met, and in less time than it takes to let our latte cool, we’ve heard their life story. Sometimes the details are more than we want to hear, or other times there are too many names or places or other items with which […]
Month: July 2022
Most Blessed
Last Wednesday, when I would normally be putting the finishing touches on my weekly post, I was instead participating in a memorial service for Harold Shehan, a man I have grown to love and admire over the last three years. In the clubhouse of the country club where he lived for much of his later […]
Whatever
My daughter was about to do something that I considered somewhat dangerous and perhaps a little foolish. Rather than just tell her she couldn’t do it “because,” I decided to let her go ahead, but offered some fatherly advice in the process. While I spoke with her, she looked at the ground, her fingernails, and […]