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It’s Wednesday, the first ‘real’ Wednesday in Lent for me. For better or worse, Ash Wednesday has always felt surreal to me. It is as if Ash Wednesday were not a Wednesday at all…as if it were not even a day, in fact, at least not in the way a Sunday or Monday or any…

Today marks the one hundred and eighteenth anniversary of my mother’s birth. Today is also the third and last in a triad of commemorative days.in this year of Our Lord 2008. In a way, I am glad of that fact. I’m not much, really, on anniversaries or dated remembrances. Oh, I may note them as…

Today is a major anniversary in my life. Or more correctly, it is what our children in their growing up would have called a major weekiversary, for it marks the end of the first week and the commencement of a second week of something that matters to me more than I would ever have thought…

Sam and I have been married for almost fifty-three years. To make the thing even worse, we have known each other for all of our combined hundred and forty-nine years. He was precisely one on the day that my parents introduced us by placing precisely two-weeks-old me in the bassinet beside his in the Cradle…
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