I was going to call this “Jesus in the family room” but it’s more like Jesus in the courtyard in the center of the house. Small rooms around the sides for sleeping or privacy, and an open-concept space for cooking, eating, gathering, living. It was private as in “away from the crowds.” But not away […]

Jesus and the twelve were walking back to Capernaum. The place Jesus had moved after leaving Nazareth. The place at least a third of the twelve grew up. After miracles and teaching and the mount of transfiguration, after a season of staying away from crowds, they were going back to the most familiar place some […]

A few months ago, we bought a new shower curtain. We had changed the color of the bathroom, and seafoam green didn’t fit anymore. We found the new one at Walmart. It came with new hooks for the curtain and the liner, metal ones, bent into a “s” shape. I installed them and cleaned and […]

“I keep seeing posts about grief,” Nancy said the other day. I realized that I have been, too. It makes sense, of course, given what I write about and talk about. But as I thought more, I realized that a couple days earlier I had been feeling the burden of post after post, uninvited, of […]