In the 10 months that I have lived at my current address, I’ve seen my west-side next door neighbor exactly three times. That’s roughly once every hundred days. The yard is neat. The front porch light comes on each night. I’ve even knocked on the front door a few times with a piece of misplaced [...]
“God is in the details” is a phrase I’ve heard plenty of times – enough to cause me to wonder who first said it, and why. So I spent some time recently searching for the source of this particular phrase (you may rightly call me a “word nerd”) and discovered that it’s a knock-off, of [...]
Close to 100 name tags were spread on the table near the door of the event – the invitation to which I’d affirmatively responded over a month before. So although I’d almost rather be pushed out of an airplane at several thousand feet than walk into a room full of social opportunity alone, I approached the welcome [...]
My friend Christine and I have marked our calendars in permanent ink to meet for one day in October and one in April. We set aside these fall and spring days for our “pilgrimage” to a tiny Texas town called Round Top, where, with thousands of others, we comb acres in search of magic. Twice [...]
Her name was Jane.
I had the good fortune to work with her on the staff of a Houston church for seven sweet years. When I began the job, I was 30 – and she was 84. She was born in 1906, just a few months before the San Francisco earthquake, in a little Texas coastal [...]