My Wake Tech Community College students are obsessed with Friends. Not their real-life buddies, but the sitcom, whose 236 episodes dominated American TV from 1994 to 2004. Though Friends displays the kind of homogeneity younger millennials and Generation Z rail against—it’s an all-white, heterosexual, middle-class, …
Last week was a hard grief week. It marked the one-year anniversary of Mom breaking her arm and moving to an assisted living facility. The day she moved, we got her settled by mid-afternoon, where she enjoyed ginger ale and an egg salad sandwich at …
Last week, Fred and I made an impulsive decision. We adopted a new cat. Having a second cat is considered impulsive for us. We are a couple who plans everything—but only after cost-benefit and perceived risk analyses, of course. In January, when we became guardians …
What Do You Do #ForSabbathsSake? Guest Blog Series Conclusion This summer, when I began the “What do you do, #ForSabbathsSake?” Guest Blog Series, I had no idea what would emerge. Thirteen guest bloggers and three months later, we have a treasure trove of stories, confessions, …
There are plenty of reasons to be anxious and depressed right now. Mass shootings, communities devastated by hurricanes and earthquakes, threats of nuclear war. In these chaotic times, it’s normal to feel like things are spinning out of control. But in my tiny corner of …
The things I am not doing while I am writing this include turning on all the lights in my house I want lit so I can use them in the next 25 hours, filling up one electric pot of hot water and plugging it in …