New Sprout for Spring! 46 short reflective essays: 1-Freethinking on Faith, Feathers & Flocks 2-Mountains to Sea, Crossing Lines 3-Jesus […]
Freedom Convoy
We drove in the “Freedom Convoy” today! Seriously, there it was as we were driving here in Western North Carolina. […]
Greatest Love?
I’ve just submitted this week’s column. It may seem like a light-weight, yet perhaps heavy enough to consider if a […]
Memorial for a Tree
For many years, Samuel Taylor State Park in Marin County, California was a sanctuary for me. Beautiful saunters through fern […]
Sympathetic Shoves
This weekend’s column isn’t really about my old Pathfinder truck I drove for almost 25 years, but it does spin […]
Quantum Church
As a fan of Young Sheldon, the brilliantly precocious little guy with a big brain who grows up to be […]
Ise Jingu
This coming weekend my “Highland Views” column highlights the fascinating Ise Jingu temple in Japan. Built with wooden dowels instead […]
1619 & 1776
I’m reading The 1619 Project. I’d heard some of the controversy about the NYT project and saw the authors had […]
Old Ferries, New Ships
This weekend’s column weaves an image from colonial history with an interfaith musical event and an old ferryboat … Look […]
Highland Views
My second book of the year, Highland Views, is now available! This collection of 52 columns (one year’s worth) from […]
Writing for Generations
From 19 to 90 … Such a good feeling to share some of my most recent books with college students […]
Just a Tad
We’re keeping an eye on the pond tadpoles. So far the herons, snapping turtles and raccoons haven’t discovered them.
Friendly Freethinker 