She wasn’t much when I met her, to be honest. Sort of homely, but I loved her right away. She had a special spirit. I said goodbye to her a few days ago. Well, I thought I did. I’d known her for about 15 years, more than a third of my life. She’d sheltered me […]
What’s important to you? And what makes you happy? I ask, because they’re two different things. Important things need us and make us feel like we need them. Everybody wants to feel needed. And so we believe that if we surround ourselves with things that are important to us, we’ll be needed. And happy. I […]
The campfire looked the same as most other campfires, the familiar rotation of s’mores, smoke, staring at the flames, and stories carrying us deep into the star-soaked night. These stories were different, though. The words were coming from veterans of wars that spanned decades. Some of these stories hadn’t been told before, but here, now, […]