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This post is the working copy of a sermon I gave at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, MA on June 7, 2015. The live version deviates a bit, in that…
From time to time, I reflect on those defining moments which have contributed to my current self. They are not presented chronologically, as a true autobiography, but rather as the mood strikes me and representing only intermittent periods of my life, more like the foundations of a memoir.
This post is the working copy of a sermon I gave at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, MA on June 7, 2015. The live version deviates a bit, in that…
One year ago, I went for it, opting to nail a bucket list item, by starting a resolution outside of the confines of that dreaded first week of the year,…
I reached out to a teacher I haven’t spoken to in 29 years. Earlier this month, there was finally a worthwhile inclusion in the plastic shopping bag full of curiosities…
[Note: The following post was included as a Lenten reflection for Edwards Church, UCC’s daily reflections on “Sacred Conversations” in 2015.]
Ten years have passed this week since my last grandparent died, my mother’s mother. I never had a chance to know the other three very well. Grandma was all I…
In what I think rounds out my series on fifteen year anniversaries of the relationship with my wife; from the moment she really caught my attention, via our first date,…
I remember parts of it like it was yesterday. But it wasn’t. It was thirteen years ago tonight when my wife and I spoke our wedding vows and began this…
For just over a year now, I’ve taken great joy in listening to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts throughout the season on SiriusXM. It has become my sport, complete with commentary which seems to say “This is very, very important. Opera is very, very cool.”
Modern-day Commentary Fortunately, those calming sands of time have downgraded the painful memories associated with breaking a pinky toe to mere inconvenience, rather than what it clearly was, the most…