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Ten years ago I was in my dorm bedroom, sitting on the bed, cross-legged, in the drug rehab center Hazelden, in the middle of f***ing...

A very close friend of mine has cancer, and it is almost sure to end his life in the very near future. He lives in another city but was...

One day my wife Lea Ann said to me “nothing ever stops you.” She clearly did not mean it as a compliment, but I took it as one of the...

The other day I was on a zoom call with the director of an organization that was considering hiring me to speak to their members about...

What a state of affairs - the impending cold winter, covid, computer hell, loneliness, unemployment - so many negative possibilities for...

"So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and...

The last 5 days in Minnesota have been very gray and cold. There was a winter snow storm that blanketed us with a 5 inch layer of white...

Two weeks ago our family drove up to northern Minnesota to attend a wedding of Kristina, a young woman who grew up in our neighborhood and...

As I was making coffee last Monday morning I absolutely could not remember if it was Sunday or Monday. I stood there watching the coffee...

Last week my daughter Maya and I drove to NYC to move her out of her apartment. She moved to Manhattan over a year ago with the excitement...