Hope: More Than a Condiment

Hope has become a term that can be used like ketchup: With everything. Unless of course you are dining with a hoity-toity foodie friend. Or someone French. But behind its increasingly common usage for everything from the personal to the political, hope has a lot more layers than most words being bandied about in the […]

Signals to Attend

Blogging is its own kind of neighborhood. You share the road, the same convenience store, snowstorms and sports teams. When someone suddenly moves away and leaves no forwarding address, it’s like you lost something that didn’t really belong to you but felt like it did. So here’s celebrating the return of a former denizen of […]