Category: Lessons
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Interesting is a word I notice in conversation because of how people use it—or misuse it. The two ways that amuse me most: When asked for an opinion or evaluation, people will say “That’s interesting” or “Hmmmm, interesting.” Often they don’t follow that with insight. Instead, it’s a neutral being used to not offer a more…
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We’ve had a mouse problem. It started with a text from Virginia on my Monday morning walk that said, “Mouse! Come home!” I came home, seemingly trapped it in a bathroom and went to get some mouse traps. By the time I returned, it was gone. But we set our traps and the next morning,…
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I’ve never been much of a flower person. I’ve let Virginia do the work of encouraging things to grow and be beautiful, and I water, yank up weeds and prune when things get unruly. But last year, I decided to try my hand at it. I dug out a garden in our backyard and planted…
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After watching the Celtics’ 92-87 Game 7 win over the Raptors .. Paskal Siakum took a big step back this postseason. In a series where Toronto really needed Siakum to come up big, he was outplayed by Jaylen Brown consistently. In Game 7, he managed just 13 points (to Brown’s 21). After a great first…
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I’ve started and stopped writing something about the mass shooting in Annapolis a few times now. It hits close to home for me. I worked in several small newsrooms as I started my journalism career. Working at a local, non-metro paper is a lot of things: it’s a rite of passage for young journalists; it’s…
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I heard this evening that the stay has been lifted on deporting the families who have been held at the Berks County Residential Center for the past year and a half. This is the letter I sent to Gov. Wolf, who apparently has the power to close the facility and free the families. If you…
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I am sad and frustrated to hear today that the Supreme Court of the United States chose not to hear a case involving women and children who came to this country in late 2015 from violence-plagued Central America seeking asylum. Some of these women and their children have been detained for more than 400 days…
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So I’m sitting at work yesterday afternoon when I see a zig-zagging beam of light to my far left. A couple minutes later, I see it again. It happens maybe 5 times over 90 minutes. As I prepare to drive to a church meeting about an hour away, as I walk down a hallway, I…
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The musical Hamilton has certainly piqued interest in the Founding Father who did the most among those who never became President—and was also the guy who introduced we Americans to the tawdry sex scandal (if only Gary Hart had delivered as complete and humiliating a public explanation as Hamilton did for his sleazy indiscretions). But…
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In the tumult of processing last week’s election, someone at church asked me Sunday morning who in the world could be the next Martin Luther King — the person who takes the lead on the hard road to a more perfect union—and the answer seemed so obvious. Barack Obama. He leaves the presidency a relatively young man…
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With the election of Donald Trump as President-elect, there is a lot of anxiety about what will happen to people living on the country’s margins, including those who have entered the country illegally to escape repression and violence elsewhere. If you live near Southeastern Pennsylvania and are looking for a way to join with others…
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Toward the end of today’s Million Moms March at Philly’s City Hall, one of the speakers asked every mom who had lost a child to gun violence to raise their hand, and the air went thick with hands. Then she asked for their names, and the air filled with voices and names. This plague of…
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