What do you demand of your life? What, more than anything else, do you insist that this life produce for you before you exit the stage? Fame, fortune, longevity, cool new experiences? (We’ll return…

More often than not, if I’m suffering someone else is involved. That’s about as straight-forward as I can put it. I suffer because of other people. Put differently, I rarely if ever can recall…

Sometimes I feel like I’m knocking at the door and I need only wipe away the condensation on the glass so that I might at last really and truly see what’s going on. That’s…

From my son during a recent lengthy car trip: “Dad, what religion are we?” I answered that we are not religious or, more specifically, that I am not. Turns out that some of my…

For as long as I can remember I’ve been looking for myself. You know, that fuzzy notion of a ‘me’ that seems to be experiencing something called ‘life’ on something called ‘planet Earth’ in…

Comes another day, awakening with no conscious prompting, a momentary pause until the mind reenters and brings with it thoughts of ‘me’ and ‘my life.’ Like an early-morning commuter station humming back to life,…