While this series of “mini”-reflections on aging are clearly personal and about my own aging process, they are also meant, hopefully, to resonate with the experiences of others at or near my age. That said, these ruminations will appear, usually a couple in each post, from time to time.  And here, along with a couple…

I ran across this quotation some time ago from Alan Simpson’s eulogy for George H.W. Bush at Washington National Cathedral in an op-ed piece by Bret Stephens in the New York Times (12-7-18): “He never lost his sense of humor,” the former senator from Wyoming said of his friend of more than 50 years. “Humor…

Without reviewing all that was said in the first post, let me just remind you of the “metaphor of light” used to characterize the presence of Jesus in the world and ”the story” of the man who refused to be caught up in the argumentative conversations about what happened to him or initially to pass…

There was a saying so prominent some years ago that one got tired of hearing it: I think it may actually have come from a TV ad for Mountain Dew:  “Been there, done that, got the T-shirt.”  At its worst, it was a kind of “GenerationX” statement of boredom and disdain—“that’s old stuff, don’t want…