Life is good and I am grateful
I just finished binge-watching “Station Eleven” on HBOMax. It was a weird but strangely compelling story. It jumped all over the globe and the timeline, but everything came together perfectly in the final episode. As the final credits were rolling, I realized that all stories are just one story: the…
I shared this article on Facebook this morning, because it’s a topic that is near and dear to my heart at the age of fifty-five. I immediately racked up several comments in response to this post rationalizing “OK Boomer” as “not that big a deal,” or defending the entire millennial…
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. As a public school teacher who has been dealing with other people’s children all day, every day, for the last thirteen years, I read a lot of articles about brain science, cognition, psychology, and human development. This morning I read this…
“Only the humble soul can be led. Only the humble soul is coachable. Only the humble soul can truly advance in the spiritual life.”–Matthew Kelly I have had five extremely humbling years. It has been a very good experience for me. Notice I didn’t say it was enjoyable. It’s been…
On June 8th, 2018, I fell off my bicycle and broke my leg into five pieces. My leg broke at a clean angle across the upper tibia and fibula, and my upper tibeal plateau broke into three triangular pieces. The break was so bad that when I was checked into…