Listening to My Life...

It's November 1. I am momentarily stunned as I think of how 2016 seems to have just flown  by. So much has happened this year, both in m...

Somehow September came and went, and I didn't post anything. It could be because I was on the road at least two days each week that mont...

ANNOUNCING..... SO MANY GOOD RESOURCES HERE! I normally post 4 or 5 good things I have come across in the past week or two, but I hit th...

This is a rich passage from Annie Dillard, whom I also quoted on Monday ... Thomas Merton wrote, “There is always a temptation to diddle ...

Today I'm recommending an entire article today, not just a pithy quote. As I nerd out on vacation by reading to my heart's conten...

From Between the World and Me , by Ta-Nehisi Coates. As you probably know already, this is a collection of essays addressed to his 15 year o...

I'm on vacation and planning on lots of reading. Here's some goodness from Annie Dillard: It is still the first week in January, a...