Life Lessons

An Easter Blessing

The sun came up as bright as you might wish for an Easter morning. Dazzling yellow set in a sky of Easter egg blue. But the…

Love & Coronavirus for Christmas

The pandemic squashed a lot of festivities. But there’s more to…

April is the Cruelest Month.

It’s Easter. There’s a blizzard blowing past my windows and piling up snow against the back door.

So I Went to Puerto Rico.

Fleeing the cold reality of February in Minnesota for a week at a nice hotel with a beach and a pool is something…

The World Loses a Piano Tuner.

I attended the funeral of a piano tuner last week.

Shoveling.

The coming of winter is like the old proverb about putting a frog in a pot and turning up the heat so slowly he never realizes he’s getting…

Sailing Away.

There are people in this world who still know the art of curving a sail exactly so to catch the wind and pull a boat across the water…

Listening.

I came back from a morning run along a woodsy trail. The trees still unfolding in front of me. The river still rushing beside the trail…

Still Motorcycling.

The evening has turned surprisingly cool for this late in June. Even with my motorcycle jacket zipped to the chin, the night…

Notes from a Snow Day.

The hill at Browndale Park is a good one for winter. The sides are steep. The gnarled old oak trees are clustered near…