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March 2017

March 20, 2017

What Silence Sounds Like

Hello darkness, my old friend, I’ve come to talk to you again. “The Sound of...

December 2016

December 30, 2016

What’s Next?

As a Christmas present to each other, Jeanne and I purchased our first HD television...

December 19, 2016

Bring It On

In a recent interview with Krista Tippett on NPR’s On Being, Jesuit author and spiritual...

October 2016

October 21, 2016

Something Rather Than Nothing

One of the most reliable ways to deaden a lively conversation in class is to...

September 2016

September 14, 2016

Repairing an Angel

I love The Onion. A couple of weeks ago they reported on a sad event...

September 06, 2016

Good Morning, Psalms

Last Thursday, in just our second class of the semester, I had the opportunity to...

April 2016

April 25, 2016

The Freedom of a Tree

I read once that there are two kinds of living things—they are distinguished by the...

April 14, 2016

Under My Skin, Part Two: Yes, It Hurts!

Bright and early on Wednesday morning, it began. Actually, it began around 10:30 on Wednesday...

February 2016

February 15, 2016

A Lenten Valentine

I don’t know whose idea it was for Valentine’s Day to fall on the first...

February 03, 2016

The Wisdom of Mister Carson

As those who love Masterpiece Theater and great television know, "Downton Abbey" is in...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

One Thing

In the 1991 movie City Slickers, Billy Crystal plays New York executive Mitch Robbins, whose...

December 04, 2015

This or That?

I got into an interesting conversation the other day with someone who insisted that on...

September 2015

September 23, 2015

Her Children Rise Up

I learned something interesting about giraffes from one of my colleagues the other day. He...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

A Few Summer Observations

A few bumper stickers on the car in front of me at a stop light....

July 2015

July 01, 2015

Face to Face with the Universe

A recent edition of Harper’s Magazine includes a fascinating essay by physicist and novelist Alan Lightman entitled...

June 2015

June 17, 2015

My Best Friends

I sat down in my usual aisle seat on one of my infrequent airplane flights...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

Hopeful Thinking

I have been reminded of the academic annual cycle over the past few weeks as...

January 2015

January 19, 2015

What I Would Love to Find

In Bird by Bird, the best book on writing that I have read, Anne Lamott...

November 2014

November 21, 2014

Going on Retreat

I begin with a confession. As recently as a week ago in a Facebook posting...

November 12, 2014

Death Is Nothing Terrible

We are all going to die! That's just so awful. I didn't agree to this....

October 2014

October 22, 2014

The Crucifix Train

A bit over a year after moving into our beautiful new humanities building, there is...

September 2014

September 24, 2014

Having a Human Experience

Several years ago, as my mother-in-law was steadily descending into the hell of Alzheimer’s, an...

December 2013

December 09, 2013

The Peaceable Kingdom

Bleary-eyed at the 8;00 service yesterday morning, I noticed that a reproduction of the above...

November 2013

November 18, 2013

Being Schroeder

Regular or even occasional readers of this blog know that one of my guilty passions...

November 06, 2013

My Own Skin

As has happened more often in the last 25 years than I could possibly recall,...

May 2013

May 30, 2013

The Tongue of a Teacher

The Palm Sunday celebration in a liturgical Christian church is both confusing and jarring. Everyone...

April 2013

April 28, 2013

My Mistress

Twenty years ago I encountered a remarkable woman; over the past two days we hosted...

April 25, 2013

Defensiveness

I got into a bad habit a few years ago that I thought I had...

March 2013

March 21, 2013

The Sounds of Silence

During my senior year in high school, I joined a record club for the first...

October 2012

October 04, 2012

The Fertility of Silence

This may sound odd coming from a person who started this blog a few weeks ago,...

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