Let Me Count the Ways
I’m a big fan of use the Notes app on my phone, to capture things before I forget them, since I almost always have my phone nearby. I referenced this in previous post on Family Lexicon and in fact I use…
Keeping the christmas spirit
A couple of years ago, towards the end of January, with the Christmas lights and decorations long packed away into boxes in the basement, we notice that baby Jesus was still on our mantle. We were about to bundle him…
Giving and Receiving
Part of the great adventure of writing my first book is the things I’ve learned and the people I’ve met. At least for me, it seems like usually when I admit that I don’t know something (which is quite often),…
Curiosity
Five-plus years ago when we moved to Bend, I started the process of connecting with new health care professionals. It’s not a fun process, trying to figure out the best people to see for your particular situation in a new…
Family Lexicon
I was walking along the Alpe Adria Trail in 2022, strolling with a friend on the trip through a forested section in Slovenia, and in the course of our conversation, I mentioned ‘family lexicon’. She asked me what I meant by…
We All Know How it Ends
I could tell Luke, our then-four-year-old neighbor, was trying to work out something by the intent, scrunched-up look on his face. He and his sister, nine-year-old Delilah, loved to come to our new house in Bend because it had three…
Tyranny of Schedule
We recently visited relatives Grace and Mason, who live an adventurous life in Big Sky, Montana with their dogs Pippi and Birdie. Pippi is a high energy, small size dog. When Grace and Mason stayed with us in Bend during a…
Beer Sunday
We were in Ossiach, Austria, getting ready to leave for another day of hiking the Alpe Adria Trail. We were staying at the CMA Carinthian Music Academy, housed in an ancient monastery. I forget the particulars, if there was some confusion as…
Taking Risks
One of the phrases I grew weary of hearing during the early days of the pandemic was “Out of an abundance of caution…”. I understand that when exercising judgement, it’s appropriate to consider all the information available, the source and…
An Outward Focus
A friend (two different friends, actually) forwarded an article from the September issue of the Atlantic titled “How America got Mean.” The author, David Brooks says he’s been obsessed with two questions for the last 8 years: Why have Americans become so…