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  • My Not-So-Wild Wild Life

    My minister asked us this morning to think about how we experienced nature early in our lives. Here goes. I grew up in suburban New Jersey and, as a kid, my wild place was behind our house. We lived in… Continue reading

    My Not-So-Wild Wild Life

  • Mouse Mind

    We’ve had a mouse problem. It started with a text from Virginia on my Monday morning walk that said “Mouse! Come home!” I came home, seemingly trapped it in a bathroom and went to get some mouse traps. By the… Continue reading

  • Meeting My Father-in-Law, Who Died in 1974

    I was going through a photo album from 1968 made up of photos mostly taken by my father-in-law, and it was as if I was meeting him for the first time. Which, in some ways, I was. Charles Christopher Kirk… Continue reading

  • The Lure of Sunflowers

    I’ve never been much of a flower person. I’ve let Virginia do the work of encouraging things to grow and be beautiful, and I water, yank up weeds and prune when things get unruly. But last year, I decided to… Continue reading

  • On Being Bill Clinton

    A Piece of American Trivia As I browsed in a Hallmark store one day in the mid-nineteen-eighties, I found a card listing famous people who have the same birthday as me. I was startled when I saw my own name.… Continue reading

  • Why Legacy Looks Forward, Not Back

    My friend David Jack is one of the most inspiring people I know. He is a fitness professional whose work is deeply tied to his commitment to seeing people thrive spiritually and physically. He is huge—6–4 and lots of muscle—yet completely approachable.… Continue reading

  • Why Laughing at the Seinfeld 9/11 Spec Script Felt So Wrong and So Right

    Lately there have been a few things coming together and making me wonder about the long shadow of 9/11. I just finished re-listening to Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower, which is an exhaustive take on Osama bin Laden, from his… Continue reading

  • I Want to Be a Little Old Man

    This is a poem I wrote in 2014 as I felt I was coming around a bend and could see some re-assessments coming. Eight years later, it’s kinda true and kinda not. (Image credit: Photo by Mohammad Rezaie on Unsplash)… Continue reading

  • The Practice of Practice

    Allen Iverson did not have a positive relationship with practice, as he made clear in a famous end-of-season rant. But, did I agree with him? Continue reading

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