Because I’m Still in Love with You
My wife and I celebrate mooniversaries. Back in the summer of 2001, we were eager to get our new life started, and scheduled a few meetings to make the plans.…
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.
My wife and I celebrate mooniversaries. Back in the summer of 2001, we were eager to get our new life started, and scheduled a few meetings to make the plans.…
I learned recently about the death of one of my classmates from college. Chris’ was a combination of talents like I’d never seen, which I may never see again. I…
Modern-day Commentary Finally, I’ve found a school paper for my Rewind Series which is totally truthful. This is a tour of my bedroom, a glimpse of my home life in…
It’s been an unusual week for me. I hesitate to use words that come easily like “terrible” or “worst ever” because I know that there are people with whom I’m…
Modern-day Commentary Long before I discovered choral singing and conducting, two passions which will never be removed from my life, I mangled clarinet parts for school credit. I was dreadfully…
Every four years, I enjoy the World Cup season. That sentence has been carefully crafted, so as not to be a lie. Instinctively, I’d have written “look forward to” or…
I’ve often said that I like to think about life as a series of forks, a sort-of Choose Your Own Adventure book, in which we’ve already made countless decisions, and…
Yesterday marked the end of my fifth year as choir director at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, Massachusetts. This means that in less than six years, I have made…
It’s my wife’s birthday, and I’m the one who’s overly excited. This happens every year. It’s not that she’s afraid of birthdays, or anything like that. In fact, I’d say,…
This post is the working copy of a sermon I gave at Edwards Church, UCC in Framingham, MA on May 18, 2014. The live version deviates a bit, in that…