Reflections on love, dating, marriage, friendship, heartbreak, separation, reconciliation, boundaries, and the complicated ways people connect.
Sometimes the greatest gift in life is having someone who keeps showing up. There are people who come into our lives for a season, people who remain for years, and a precious few who somehow manage to stay through just about everything. They’ve seen us at our best. Unfortunately, they’ve also seen us at our … More The Friends Who Don’t Give Up on Us
Fifty states. Countless communities. And two young men reminding Americans that sometimes the most extraordinary things are the ones we’ve stopped noticing. There’s something rather remarkable about watching two young men from Great Britain travel around the United States and experience things that millions of Americans have never seen. Their names are Josh and Jase. … More Josh and Jase: Two Brits Discovering the America We Forgot to Appreciate
When effort, purpose, and the need to matter collide. There comes a point in life when we begin to question things we once took for granted. Not necessarily because something terrible has happened. Not because we’ve lost our faith, abandoned our dreams, or stopped caring about the people around us. Sometimes we simply look at … More How Much Is Enough?
The Unspoken Thoughts, Hidden Feelings, and Secrets Within the Relationships We Think We Understand How many people do you know? Not strangers you pass on the street or people you occasionally encounter at the grocery store. I’m talking about people who are actually part of your life. Friends, family members, coworkers, neighbors, former classmates, and … More What They Never Tell You
“The Conversation Before the Conversation” I wasn’t planning to write today. Then I made the mistake of sitting in my secondary office, a coffee shop, and watching people. Once you become interested in human behavior, it becomes difficult to turn it off. You begin noticing things that other people may overlook. A table isn’t simply … More What Body Language Says Before We Do
When we are young, friendship seems easy. Friends are the people sitting next to us in class. They are the people we play sports with. They are the people we spend our weekends with. Life creates friendships almost automatically. But somewhere along the journey of life, something changes. We grow. We evolve. Our priorities change. … More The People Who Know Our Story
Coffee shops are fascinating places. Not because of the coffee. Because if you sit quietly long enough, eventually you will encounter an expert in almost everything. Politics. Business. Religion. Medicine. The military. Relationships. Law enforcement. Education. International affairs. Terrorism. Human behavior…etc. Apparently, somewhere between ordering the coffee and finishing the breakfast sandwich, a remarkable number … More You Never Know Who Is Sitting at the Next Table
We measure life in years. Maybe we shouldn’t. There are years in which very little changes. We wake up in the same place, follow the same routines, interact with the same people, and arrive at December largely recognizable as the person who entered January. Then there are two weeks that somehow contain twenty years. Everything … More When Life Happens in Fast-Forward: The Power of Compressed Moments
This morning, I sat outside at 7 a.m. The sky was clear. There wasn’t a cloud in sight. The sun was just beginning to rise, slowly bringing light into a new day. And for a moment, I thought about another morning. September 11, 2001. It was a beautiful morning too. The sky was blue. The … More The Morning the World Changed Forever
I was watching Titanic again. Not for the sinking. Not for the spectacle. Not even for the love story. It was the end that got me. Rose, now an old woman, surrounded by people listening as she told them about something she had experienced more than eighty years earlier. She was the last connection to … More The Stories We Never Thought to Ask