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  • The Rose in the Cesspool

    I Can't Seem to Let The Graystones (and a Few Others) Go. And Why They Matter More Than Ever The internet used to be....

  • Make Memories First, Ask Questions Later

    This post is excerpted from a letter to my daughter on her 18th birthday. What does a dad say to his beloved daughter...

  • Forging & Fruits (Or, the Presents of Presence)

    i. the forging (2020) In the early days of January 2020, I was helping my daughter pack for her semester abroad. It's...

  • Smiling Assassins

    I recently came across a fascinating series of studies about women who disguise negative gossip as concern. Instead o...

  • The Most Important Question Is the One You're Avoiding

    If you do not know how to ask the right question, you discover nothing. –W. Edwards Deming We're taught early that pr...

  • Like>Love

    We've been chasing the wrong thing for a long time. For centuries we've built our entire civilization around love — t...

  • Notes On Discernment & Character (something I've been thinking about)

    Lately I've been thinking about people—their motivations, how we read them, what they do and don't do, what they say ...

  • Socks, Geniuses, Gangsters

    A few bright spots from 2025. This summer I posted a short piece called There’s A Crack In Everything, That’s How the...

  • Hope Is a Complicated Little Bastard

    Sometimes the mind underlines things before you know why. You jot down a quote, a song lyric, something someone said,...

  • Holy Shame

    The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages. — Virginia Woolf Woolf meant this as a warning. A century l...

  • Proofs of Wonder

    On May 20, 1999, just after five in the morning, my daughter was born. If you've been in that room, you know. Reality...