Faith, Fiction, Friends

When you’ve lived long enough, you begin to see a pattern. In the 1970s, it was Paul Ehrlich’s “population bomb” followed quickly by “the ne...

After 2 Samuel 7:1-18   The desire to build a house for me is a noble one, coming from your heart, the heart  after my own. But it is not ye...

It was our 25 th  anniversary trip – a week in Amsterdam and then a week in Paris. My wife had been to Amsterdam some years before on a busi...

It’s my annual list of the some of the best books I read this year. I call it “Books I’m Not Recommending” because I’m personally resistant ...

Sometimes I find myself backing into a poet’s work – starting with the most recent work and then working my way backwards to earlier works. ...

I’ve been a fan of  Louise Penny’s  Chief Inspector Gamache mystery novels for years. I was fascinated by the village of Three Pines in Queb...

After 2 Samuel 2:1-5:25   A succession marked  by turmoil, rivalries, murder, deceit, betrayal. The one anointed to be king prevails, first ...