Last week, I went for a morning walk along the trail that runs through the grounds of Haverford College. Sometimes, there is a question or a worry nagging me at the start, but that day I was open to whatever thoughts worked their way to the surface. My focus narrowed to pondering the essay […]
Read More →The urgency of the holidays can be hard to shake. The distant echoes of winter finals, the pre-holiday crises that every worker faces, the daily ratcheting up of a distractible child’s excitement and meltdowns, the long shadow of losses, December deaths and familial estrangements, all have left me feeling hounded at some point. Yet […]
Read More →The Ambler Public Library was still housed inside the Colony Club at the corner of Ridge and Race Streets when I joined. I remember dark wood, hushed voices and sunbeams filtering down from tall windows, not unlike the church my family attended in the basement that doubled as a fallout shelter beneath St. Joseph’s School. […]
Read More →A feather helped me make peace with my father’s memory. Several weeks ago, on my 60th birthday, I was missing my family, grown or gone. I took my aging corgi, Buddy, for a walk a few minutes past sunrise. A laughing gull flew overhead and shed a feather that drifted to the sidewalk at my feet. […]
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