Sunscreen
Sunscreen is painless, quick to apply, and effective, and yet it almost always becomes the enemy of the summer’s day. Continue reading Sunscreen
Category: Letters to an Adopted Child
Mask
Like the Coronavirus itself, the mask has spread. Once particular, it turned ubiquitous, though not without friction. Continue reading Mask
Coaster
Once a year, the local community enveloping my college campus held a town-wide garage sale day. Continue reading Coaster
Bookshelf
This one room stores more wisdom than my mind can retain. And most of what I am able to read in my short life, I will forget. Continue reading Bookshelf
Glasses
Lenses look like flattened ice cubes, melted enough to be translucent. Cold and dull, they seem impersonal. But the task they perform makes them a vital part of our humanity. Continue reading Glasses
Mice
One Sunday, your mom was in her workshop building a coffee table when I heard her scream, “Mouse! Mouse! Davis, there’s a mouse!” Continue reading Mice
Wrigley Field
At one point, I found myself at an intersection so full of people that I was pushed up against a corner storefront, unable to move. For a brief moment, I thought I might not escape the crowd, ever. Continue reading Wrigley Field
Baseball
A baseball mimics the layers of the world, having cowhide and cotton as crust, yarn as mantle, rubber as outer core, and compressed cork as core. Continue reading Baseball
Rain
Controlling rain would be a great thing for humanity. You don’t have to look far in our culture to see the damage rain has done to us in the past, and the ways we are trying to cope with it now. Continue reading Rain
Genesis
The stories tend to feel bare and incomplete, and this is intentional. The author has left gaps in the narrative for our own hearts to fall into. Genesis lets us participate in the story. Continue reading Genesis
