April 15, 2026
I attended a play last week, and the playwright stuck around afterward to take questions from the audience. During the Q&A, he shared that the inspiration […]
April 8, 2026
When I was in high school, I worked as a busboy at a neighborhood restaurant. One of the servers, Dolly, had a fun way of expressing […]
April 1, 2026
In the wonderful book Benediction by Kent Haruf, there’s a scene where a young couple shows up at a pastor’s office and asks if he can […]
March 25, 2026
I was watching a TV show the other night, and it had closed captioning. The two main characters were talking, and behind them were background actors […]
March 18, 2026
I had lunch the other day with my high school football coach and a former teammate from that same team. It was an awesome experience—not just […]
March 11, 2026
I had a physics class in high school that, I’ll admit, I didn’t do very well in. But I remember a concept the teacher talked about […]
March 4, 2026
I previously did a Rise & Whine episode about the book Blue Collar Journal by John Coleman, who was a Harvard College president in the 1970s. […]
February 25, 2026
This morning, when I backed out of a parking spot after a brief stop, I heard a grinding sound. I thought, Oh no, my car isn’t […]
February 18, 2026
I recently walked by a training room in a building I was visiting, and I noticed something that really stuck with me. The first time I […]
