Category Archives: November

November 7, 2025 In Act I of my father’s original musical (oft-mentioned and caffeine-fueled), there is a haunting song for three voices that sounds like it was plucked straight out of a Broadway show. Indeed, Dad was taking inspiration from modern musicals like “Dear Evan Hansen” when he penned this batch of songs. In theContinue reading “To Thine Own Self”

November 11, 2024 Before last week’s fraught election, our nation experienced the annual “fall back” into standard time. Many of us are hurting from this one-two punch (especially the second one). No fan of November myself, I am sensitive to the outward darkness and have developed techniques over the years to keep it from translatingContinue reading “Double Down on Community for Home-Grown Hope”

November 18, 2022 When I was a kid, I thought that my town kept to a rigid schedule – one I could never hope to understand as a mere civilian. The idea that workers put up our Christmas lights whenever they felt like it was blasphemy. That illusion was finally broken for me this week,Continue reading “Lights and Display Contest”

November 6, 2021 The time is ripe for an announcement, folks. I will not be blogging on a regular basis this winter (here’s where you pretend along with me that I’ve been blogging regularly up to this point). Instead, I’m going to direct my energies into a book. Or rather, the book — the oneContinue reading “Onward!”

November 21, 2020 In case you don’t think 2020 has been a bizarre year, I call your attention to Exhibit A: last week, my mom’s cat turned down food for the first time in his 10-year life. My fawning over Ash the cat, to continue a theme from my last post, is one of thoseContinue reading “Higher Calling”