What’s the most fearlessly helpful thing I can tell you this morning? “Love you.” Here’s a story of how a friend said that to me. +++ When we started visiting Maine years ago, I tried Moxie. And am one of those people who likes it. When we started needing masks at work (and our loved […]

“When the platform is free, you are the product.”  Every time Nancy says something about the irrational or illogical responses that people make to posts on Facebook, I remind her of that truth. When seemingly random videos show up in my Instagram feed, I remind myself.  The other day, though, I watched one of those videos […]

Rich Dixon helps us remember. +++ Last Friday was December 5th. If you’ve followed my story, you know that’s a significant date. 38 years ago, I started the day by climbing onto a roof to install a few Christmas lights. By the end of the day, doctors informed me I had a cervical spinal cord […]

Peace isn’t simply the absence of fighting, not the peace of God. The peace of God isn’t the silence of not mentioning difficult subjects. It’s not simply avoiding talking about religion and politics at the holiday table. We are not called to be John the Baptist, most of us. There was, after all, only one […]

Our story today is about listening. John the Baptist shows up early in the Christmas story. So early that no one sees him. His mother was 6 months pregnant with him. But although he couldn’t be seen as more than a baby bump, he made himself evident when a relative of his mother showed up […]