I rescued a few branches of ivy from the wall where they had spent the winter playing dead. A warm...

Not generating your own light doesn’t mean you cannot shine. Some of the brightest objects in the night sky produce...

Y’s father arrived at the center with Y in tow, chest puffed, wearing the expression of a man who has...

Two or three pairs of eyes find each other across the room and begin to sparkle.  One hand goes up. Can...

As my wife was heading out the gate, Merim ran up behind her and wrapped both arms around her.  It...

Flower, what would I do without you?

I stepped outside and found a scrape along the corner of my car bumper. Tucked under the windshield wiper was...

I looked around the room before class and took stock: mostly girls, second through fourth grade. They fell into two...

On their way home from school, a group of third-grade girls crossed our path and stopped to say hello. It...

Today in class, I sang to the children.  A song called A Vow of Love.  They all propped their chins in...

Softly, even if you can barely hear it. Gently, even if you can barely feel it. Once, twice, three times...

One step at a time, one piece at a time—  and before you know it, the picture will be complete.

I could never quite understand my wife’s reluctance to put away the dishes after washing them. She is, by nature, goal-oriented— quick to...

The beautiful things beneath the heaven are like wildflowers met while climbing some hill in life. Blooming and fading and...

I walked alone through the mountains for a long time, no one else around. At some point I stopped and...

Spring had been teasing us for days, one foot in and one foot out, before winter finally yanked us back...

This winter I passed through something I had never experienced in my life — minus thirty-five degrees. When the heavy...

I want to be a flower, just once.  Like the ones that endure the long freeze, break through the hardened...

Once I came to understand that death could come at any moment, each day began to feel like a gift....

The age of AI has arrived. With it comes the promise of a better quality of life— and, at the same time,...

What summer needs is found in winter. What winter needs is found in summer. What I need is found in...

In English, “That’s a good question” does more than one thing. Sometimes it means exactly what it says. Other times it signals...

With the idea of tending a small garden, I built a raised bed in the side yard last year, as I had...

A horse stood in the field, head lowered, grazing, until it sensed me and broke into a run. I had never seen...

It was good to see old friends again. I had known it already, but still— they were, each of them,...