19 Mar The Trouble with Being Certain
One of the most useful skills in life is the ability to change your mind. Psychologists call it intellectual humility. I was reminded of it at two in the morning in the...
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12 Mar So Much Softness
We spent our Saturday in the open room of the emergency animal hospital, the kind with bright lights and stainless-steel tables arranged so everyone can move quickly when they need...
05 Mar Hope in the Dark
The lemon tree in our backyard is barely three feet tall, and yet it carries the largest lemons I have ever seen. At least twenty hang from it now, heavy...
26 Feb Just Be Here
Emma is curled into the crook of my arm tonight, warm and flushed, finally asleep. Before she drifted off, I kept offering things.Do you want me to get you a smoothie...
19 Feb In Awe of Their Awe
I’m sitting at the kitchen table to write this week’s blog and outside the window there’s a cloud that looks exactly like a floppy-eared rabbit. My first instinct is to turn...
12 Feb A Wider View
If someone asked us to sketch a map of the world from memory, most of us would place where we live somewhere near the center. That’s simply how perspective works....