The late, great writer David Foster Wallace once said we have the freedom to be the “lords of our own tiny…
A young man with whom I work was leaving the store yesterday and heading for a dentist appointment. I asked him so is…
This is no kind of scientific survey, but yesterday at work I asked a lot of people coming through the…
The full force of dark and cold comes on so early these days, like a surrounding host, an occupying army, a curfew. Yet our house is…
There was this little removable insert, a worksheet to be written on, in a magazine (Moment) I brought home…
There’s something I want to poke at a little bit, like when you’re sitting around a fire and a hot coal pops…
In all my years of listening to the Christmas story, I don’t remember ever thinking to myself or asking “Of what…
In his book Paper: Paging Through History, Mark Kurlansky asks in the first sentence “What do humans do that other animals do not?” He…
I keep walking by a sign in our store that says “2-hour delivery. It’s a thing.” Of course this is in many Whole…