Can the new iPhone Reawaken Creativity?

I used to take a lot of pictures.
When I was single, and in the days of marriage before kids, my camera (a 35mm SLR for those old enough to remember pre-digital days!) was a regular companion. I delighted in nature photography, often using slide film (farewell, Kodachrome!). Did some experimentation with black-and-white, and some macro [...]

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The Love of Doing Nothing

I was talking to a friend today who is experiencing some family turmoil. In short – one aunt who married into the family has engaged, over many years, in a pattern of returning poison for love. What to do with such a person – how to show love?
Most of us have someone (or maybe that’s [...]

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Being an Obscure, Loyal Provider

It’s Father’s Day. I’m on the front lines now: my father has passed, as has my wife’s Dad. But their impact is not forgotten.
They were not well-known men in the wider world. Neither of them were college graduates, nor did they attain fame or notoriety. Both, ironically, were draftsmen, laboring away in relative obscurity in [...]

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Hanging on

When I was little, like the rest of us, I knew I had to hang on to people and things as I wobbled uncertainly through the world.
Later, I imagined that I was strong, independent, capable of making it on my own without help.
Now I know that proud self-sufficiency is a delusion, one which only leads [...]

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