Sun and moon. Have you ever noticed they look exactly the same size in the earth’s sky? The sun is actually four hundred times larger than the moon, but the moon is four hundred times closer to earth than the sun. Hence, they both appear to have the same exact circumference. A coincidence, astronomers call it. Some bit of random chance. A lucky anomaly. But what would you call it? The word ‘coincidence’ appears only [...]

I’ve felt pecked at a lot these days. Have you? Pricked by the not-good-enough vibes. Cut down by hasty words spoken, negative thoughts zinging, social media feeds touting unrealistic pictures of beautiful women with smoother complexions cooking better meals saying catchier catch-phrases than what I could ever possibly achieve. All I want to do is pull the covers back up over my head sometimes. At least when such soul jabbing comes ‘as the crow flies,’ [...]

This summer I’ve been trying to teach my daughter to swim. She’s terrified of deeper water, however. In fact, one day after many lessons and hours of practice, I challenged her to wade out with me to a deeper area of the pool. We both could still touch the bottom, yet she screamed, “Why are you doing this to me?” To be honest, I was startled by her reaction. How did asking for a few [...]

Many years ago, the famous author Hemingway began his short story "The Capital of the World" with two boys named Paco. One Paco is fatherless. The other Paco, however, has a father desperately searching for him. This dad is so lovesick, in fact, he travels all the way to Madrid, Spain to put an advertisement in the newspaper. The advertisement reads: “PACO, MEET ME AT HOTEL MONTANA NOON TUESDAY ALL IS FORGIVEN, PAPA." Surprisingly, in [...]