Amidst what many are calling a loneliness epidemic , Lisa and I somehow stumbled into a friendship group that has changed our lives. It...

Those of us in the Christian faith frequent the annunciation this time of year, when the angel Gabriel appears to Mary and tells her she...

A hand is “a prehensile, multi-fingered appendage located at the end of the forearm.” Biologically true, yes, but lacking the poetry...

Twenty years ago the word "community" started showing up everywhere and, to be perfectly honest, it annoyed me. It seemed like a fad, and...

I'll start, you finish: Lions and Tigers and Bears... In one of the most famous lines from the 1939 classic, The Wizard of Oz , three...

Rachel Feintzig is the Work & Life columnist for The Wall Street Journal . The WSJ bio blurb about Ms. Feintzig notes that she focuses,...

Attending the Wendell Berry Reading Group gathering last month, I discovered I may have stumbled into unintentional profanity. While...

Authors have a tinge of arrogance. Well, maybe more than a tinge. It takes some hubris to believe we have something important to say to...

Angry has its own verb (anger). Judgmental also has one (judge). Doesn't it seem that gentle should have one, too? It turns out it does....

This post breaks the rules. Rule #1: Keep everything simple. It's a good rule for blog-writing and reels where we only have a moment to...

I’ll answer, but circuitously. Several decades ago, I failed my first attempt at a board certification exam, so I arranged supervision...

I was once in a band called Salt. Okay, it wasn't a great band, and I was definitely the weak link. Put a guy with no rhythm on rhythm...

If you’re a psychologist, counselor, or in another helping profession, do you ever wonder why we do this work? So much of it comes down...

Those iconic sweaters Fred Rogers wore on Mister Rogers' Neighborhood were hand-knitted by his mother, Nancy McFeely Rogers Flagg. She...

An ancient Greek inscription from at least 2600 years ago reads, “Know Thyself.” This notion captured the attention of many early Greek...

What's happened to us? In the past week an elected U.S. Representative heckled the President during a nationally televised speech with a...

Every couple who has been married a long time has stories they repeat. One of ours has to do with me being salutatorian in high school...

Lisa, my dear spouse, tends Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats who often show up in her blog posts. I may have rolled my eyes at that a few...

You know that thing where you're in a crowded restaurant and it's hard to hear the people you're with? So you talk louder, and your...

In three separate conversations today and yesterday, I have been reminded of how deeply we long to be seen. Beneath our various...