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  • A Story About Chance, Lost Teeth, and Old Men

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    It’s been an unforeseen start to 2024. In December, we decided to spend January in Paris. The winter days are short and dreary, but not snowy. They are cold, but seldom freezing. It’s a fallow time, and fallow was what… Read More ›

  • The New Year

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    January is here, and the busyness of the holidays is thankfully over. Don’t misunderstand me; I love Christmas more than the average human. But I’m also happy when it’s time to revert to my normal life and its normal rhythms…. Read More ›

  • Giving Thanks

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    I’m taking a brief break from my blogging break. After all, it’s Thanksgiving, and posting on Thanksgiving is a bit of a tradition. This Thanksgiving, I’m giving a shoutout to friendship—and specifically one very special friend. In September, she turned… Read More ›

  • Full Circle

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    My first blog post was written nearly 12 years ago in Bratislava, Slovakia. Shortly after Pat and I moved there, our son bought a URL and created this site. I haven’t reread that first post in the intervening years—until this… Read More ›

  • The Family of Man

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    In January of 1955, Edward Steichen—a photographer and then Photography Director of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)—opened a photo exhibit entitled The Family of Man. In those years following World War II, the impetus was to portray the universality… Read More ›