No trouble here

The other day, my brother told me that my mother wanted to ask me a question but was afraid to, so he was posing the question to me as an intermediary. As I read his email my mind began to say, "What does he mean by that?"....I started to take offence. And then I paused,…

“fixing up” a good weekend

For years, I would dread conversations with my father. I found his incessant talking about horse racing, and Saratoga Springs in general, very tedious and shallow, and it seemed like this was all he ever talked about. At that point in our lives, we met maybe, once a year for dinner, and I think we…

Calm expectation

I was listening to a radio broadcast of, The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe, the other day. At the conclusion of the program, they said that when C. S. Lewis was a teenager, he suddenly had a vision of a faun walking in the woods carrying a package. Many years later, he wanted  to…