What an ancient story, a new Matt Damon film, and my father’s bedtime voice taught me about the journey There are some books we remember because we read them and there are others we remember because someone we loved read them to us. For me, Homer’s Odyssey belongs to the second kind. Christopher Nolan’s new … Read more
Two men born twenty-one days apart in the summer of 1923. Two boys shaped by the Great Depression. Two grandfathers who taught me that a good life is built less by extraordinary moments than by showing up for the ordinary ones. There are certain coincidences in a family that do not seem particularly remarkable when … Read more
“My cup runneth over.” — Psalm 23:5 Every Father’s Day, I find myself thinking about all the things my dad did for me over the years. Like most fathers, he worked hard, provided for his family, fixed things that were broken, and perhaps most importantly, he taught lessons that seemed ordinary at the time, but have … Read more
