When Small Talk Leads to Wedding Bells

Over the weekend, I met a friend for breakfast while visiting my mom in Greensboro. We went to my go-to local joint for catching up with someone or another over omelets and home fries. I’m there rarely enough that though it is always the same server, she doesn’t...

A Little New Year Foolishness

I’m a long-time year-end planner and I’ve gone about it a pile of ways. I’ll save you the gory details except to say that I’ve found that having a lot of those such details didn’t make me more productive or more capable of achieving anything. Instead, it mostly just...

Third Intention Healing of Our Hearts

I found my soul mate of a dog, Emmie, in 2000 at the pound. Four years later, she picked out her partner in life and crime, Cosmo, at an adoption fair. As in all wonderful, long-term relationships, Emmie and Cosmo formed their own routines and rituals; they chose one...

When We acts as a reminder of Me

“To love someone is to learn the song in their heart and sing it to them when they have forgotten.”   – Arne Garborg   Early Sunday morning, I sent a text to my friend Bryan.   Like most people, I have some resistance to leaning into our web...

Sore Muscles, Warm Hearts

My go-to social media outlet these days is Instagram. Saturday evening, I was stretched out on the bed of the Days Inn room where Theresa and I spent our weekend, scrolling through my feed. “Anything good?” she asked me. My feed, though filled with artists...

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