Personal STORIES
Unhoused
Buying a house, especially a first house, is a personal watershed as well as the first rung for most families on their capital building journey. It was certainly so for us. The first rung has become increasingly difficult to gain for today’s young families.
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Greg
My next to baby brother Greg left the scene suddenly. We only get so many brothers. Impossible to process, so I’ll write a post to try. We’ll miss him beyond words.
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Visitation
Decades ago, the first time I watched a moose swimming on Webb Lake in Weld, Maine, I had no idea how to help the poor thing out in the middle of a near mile wide stretch of water. If it started to founder and go down, I’d never get it into my small canoe, and a moose may not…
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Fledging
“There are two lasting bequests we can give our children: one is roots, the other is wings.” Hodding Carter
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Background & Perspective
Misaligned
Not Skynet concerns (yet), but rather these remarkable simulacra and their extraordinary capabilities to mimic human discourse have become increasingly entwined with our lives. The CEOs of all the major players in AI development are calling for stronger regulation. We ignore those warnings and live with the consequences.
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Gaslit
In her book, “The Golden Road” written in 1913, the author of “Anne of Green Gables,” Lucy Montgomery, wrote, “Nothing is ever really lost as long as we remember it.” The quandary, of course, is we must remember what it is we shouldn’t forget.
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Faces
“In her face, I saw such things as make me say, ‘Now God, who made such a one, be praised.’” Dante, La Vita Nuova When I look at Rita, I see her face. Always have.
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Migration
Making America Great Again means returning to the embracing kindness and welcome of our better nature, not the xenophobia, mistrust, envy, and animus that informs much of the debate on these issues, especially in social media and on the internet.
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