Monthly Archives: December 2008

A New Humanity

I wasn’t expecting to be talking about a new humanity when I called an old friend from the West Coast a few days ago. He is a teacher of special needs children in Los Angeles. He is also a poet, an actor, a lover of God, and the best joke teller I have ever known. [...]

Ten Thousand Hours

Ten thousand hours. No I’m not talking about how long it took to drive home from Asheville the Sunday after Thanksgiving, although the traffic was pretty slow on part of the route. But last weekend my wife Maggie and I did go to Asheville. And after a big lunch at an Indian restaurant with the [...]