Kindness is hard to forget.

The brutal days keep coming. So do the angels.

Wyman always used to tell me, “friends of friends are all friends.”

The simplest way to bring magic to our relationships.

On lingering, before the years fly by.

…for you to have been fully alive.

The trap is the same at both ends.

On preparing your soul to find the ones you love.

On learning to stop asking and start living.

It is being valued as important without the need to prove it.

Identity is a shortcut for you to know me. I don’t want to need it.

The crucible years are ending. What we do next is up to us.

The goal of the most important races in life is not to win, but simply to finish whole.

Marriage is made or broken in the dozens of moments each day when we turn toward each other—or away.

As our responsibilities grow, the real demand is not on our capacity—but on our spirit.

On making things beautiful in an age of AI.

On armor, seva, and what it means to truly care.

World Down Syndrome Day had me thinking what a good life is, and who deserves one.

Comes great power.

Growing in virtue creates the conditions for narcissism.

The streams that shape human life are surprisingly easy to corrupt—and surprisingly hard to guard.

Why past transformation can quietly become permission to stop growing.

Peace — in our souls and in our communities — doesn’t come from just being nicer.

It comes from starving the parts of us that crave conflict.

A short story about conflict resolution, and evolving as a coach.

We are feeble and reckless. But we have grown morally over the millennia. Would aliens passing through our solar system stop to engage our world?

I have not experienced love like this.

In the decade between my father’s funeral and Clarence’s, I relearned how to measure a life.

But all the work and suffering is worth it.

Holding down a job is only a small part of a successful marriage.

The question I’m contemplating heading into 2026.