Letting Children Make Decisions

I have written about children and decision-making before, and perhaps this is one of those subjects that I keep returning to because the old...

Something about Fathers' Day

There is a particular kind of awkwardness that comes with Father’s Day when you do not have the sort of relationship with your father that F...

Do We Know Death?

Last week, I had the pleasure of listening to a Toastmaster speak about death. It was not exactly the sort of topic one normally expects at ...

On Carrying Things...

Mid-year always feels like a strange kind of silence.  Not quiet, exactly. More like noise that has lost its urgency.  June arrives and peop...