Category: Lessons
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I was at the gym on New Year’s Eve and decided to do some step-ups to a box, maybe two feet high. Left leg went well, then on fifth rep on right leg, I felt a twinge in my back. A click-click in my spine. I know it when it happens, which is about every…
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I’ve decided that I’m going to get back to blogging on a regular basis in 2025. So preemptively, I figured I would list my favorite music of 2024. In a very particular order, my favorite albums of 2024: Tigers Blood, Waxahatchee. I saw Katie Crutchfield for the first time this year, and I am very…
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This is my rule of incompetent executives and it says that, on average, they leave after 17 months on the job. The arc usually looks like this: Herb is announced to great fanfare. He comes from a company that you assume knows much more about Doing Stuff Right than your ragtag band. Often Herb left…
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Something I wrote a decade ago, that I think is worth sharing now … Families are like inchworms. Some members lead, some follow, but in the end they all end up in the same place, because it’s all one thing. If you’re at either end, it can be frustrating; that’s where the tensions start. But…
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Attended Rev. Ken Beldon’s final message as a minister for WellSprings Congregation, and walked out with all the emotions. Ken shared his greatest hits. A mixture of messages and stories he has shared previously. Closed with The Waterboys’ song Angels and Saints. This is a wide world we travel And our paths rarely cross And…
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I get why dogs are man’s best friend. Back 30,000 years ago, when we were a shaggy but sharp biped with an uncertain future, dogs saw something in us and made a bet on our promise. They’d be our biggest boosters, slavishly drooling at our side, and ride our coattails to a better life. It…
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I’ve reached 56. Not a milestone. I did 55 last year. Lots of people told me the ol’ double-nickel was a bit of a trap birthday, that the half-decade hit them in a way the odometer turning to a “5” didn’t. Not my experience, but I get it. There is a certain settling into late…
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A therapist friend was making a point about the ability of pets to sense the emotional stance of their human partners and provide support … and it struck me that this is probably the least surprising thing about dogs and cats. I commented on Facebook: Pets, dogs especially, from an evolutionary perspective, owe their existence to their…
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Those are the words of my minister that are consoling me this week. Mia’s godmother Caitlin Yakscoe died Sunday morning at the precious age of 30. She has been seriously ill since we’ve known her and I haven’t seen her since Mia’s baptism more than three years ago. As I get older, I am increasingly…
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The people of Haiti have never deserved the hand they’ve been dealt, and that only got worse early this morning, when news broke that the president, Jovenel Moise, known as “the Banana Man,” was assassinated and his wife wounded when an as-yet unidentified team of commandos attacked his home near Port-au-Prince. Moise is a complicated and…
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I am very, very curious what things are going to look like on the other side of this.
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It’s been a weird few days. Saturday was rainy on top of the significant snowpack we’ve got. Late that afternoon I was headed to the basement to put something in the freezer when I saw a puddle on the floor on the front side of the house. I cleaned it up but it returned that…
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