Nancy and I were walking through a cool store at a cool mall. I saw a cookbook called Sunday Suppers. Karen Mordechai takes pictures. Really well. She says that she’s a food lover. And so she started having people over for supper on Sunday evenings, to share food and conversation and build community.  She’s called […]

I have a new favorite podcast for running called “99percentinvisible.” The episodes are about 18 minutes long and are stories about things we never think about, things that are mostly invisible to us. Like the dead letter office. And the clock that guides broadcasts. And fortune cookies. The stories include some speaking by a reporter […]

Sometime after I started working on my doctorate, I got a book called How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation. I read it regularly, almost like a devotional book. It talked about the emotional side of doctoral work as much as the practical side. In retrospect, I’m not sure how much I read it […]

My friend’s in the middle of a rough year. Death, graduations, health, work challenges. We were sitting in my office talking through life. “Do I have to do that project?” my friend asked. “Because last year, it was frantic.” It’s a very good project, like most everything my friend takes on. It provides something to […]

(Continuing a series on Bible reading that started last week with “The challenges of making time.”) Even if someone promises to point us in a direction, there is another reason we are too busy to read the Bible. We don’t want to end up lost, like the last time. Because we’ve tried. Someone told us […]