The small apple tree in my back yard still has a few apples clinging to their branches months after they should have fallen. They’re not...

Four years ago today, Kristy and I started a trip to Frankfurt, Germany. We deliberately scheduled a long layover in San Diego, since...

Kristy and I received this chip-and-dip plate as a wedding gift almost 19 years ago. Our wedding was in August, so it wasn't some sort of...

Conor has been at Bartle Boy Scouts camp for a week, and today was Visitors Day. He showed us the Lakefront and a cliff overlook called...

I worked a lot today. I did. I turned in a couple projects and made some good progress on some archival rewrites and did some research...

This morning as I was sitting in the bleachers watching Grant play tee-ball, I overheard a conversation a nearby family nearby was...

I said goodbye to Benjy two years ago today. It's one of those memories that makes me stop for a minute and...not really think, but...

I've been going through my phone off and on for the last week, clearing things out in preparation for an upgrade. I've had this phone for...

Sometimes I see or hear or experience things and put words to them as the day goes by, but they don't really fit anywhere. Occasionally I...

Conor’s Scouts troop planned an urban hike in Kansas City yesterday, and Conor was kind enough to let me tag along. We walked more than 6...

Beginning around mid-March last year, I stopped looking at my Facebook memories. I used to look at them pretty often. As the years...

I smoked my last cigarette a year ago today. On November 17th last year I went to a Wilco show at the Midland Theatre in Kansas City, and...

I started a new job last Friday. Today was my fifth day. I like it a lot, and I still can’t believe I got this lucky in this economy. I’m...

The rain fell hard on my way to work today. It was one of those rains you could hear over your radio—one that made you slow down because...

I sometimes wonder what happens to all the unsent messages we compose. We write and communicate all the time, whether we actually type it...

On my first day of work at Hallmark (June 2012), I wore a sportscoat, a tie, and slacks because I didn’t know what the dress code was. It...