My friend Mary once said I have “oppositional defiant disorder,” by which I’m pretty sure she meant to be funny… Read more expectations

Some years ago, I bought a landscape painting at the Rittenhouse Square art show. The painting is medium size, about… Read more just over the hill

I have a little rag-bag task list of things I do on the regular; I call them my “dailies,” and… Read more half-assing as spiritual practice

My friend is a single social worker, and she decided not to wait around to find the perfect father, she… Read more not sentimental at all

Two images linger with me from my trip to New York last Wednesday, both of them people I saw on… Read more alien on the bus