Archive - Question Marks

No Laughing Matter

... Life Lessons from the Squirrels

Jun 22 •

May 2025

The Marker Tree

Here it is May, when high school seniors are being asked a dozen times a day where they are going to college. Someone told me that her daughter was…

Published on Coming Down to Earth with Barbara Brown Taylor • May 27

That time a random visit to a small town changed my life...

Sometimes – maybe most of the time – it's the thing we don't anticipate that makes all the difference.

May 13 •

In praise of kind people and a patient dog on another hard day.

It was another hard day: the birthday without the birthday person.

May 5 •

April 2025

The Way of the Donkey Person [Palm Sunday Edition]

... and unleashing the work of Love

Apr 13 •

One Thousand Days of Longing

... the endless nature of loss and grief, infinite random thoughts, squinting into the light.

Apr 2 •

March 2025

Confession, and Consolation

What do we do when it's all too much? Like now - when it's all waaay too much...

Mar 6 •

February 2025

Conventional Wisdom says Look at the Big Picture but maybe it's time to focus on some Little Pieces?

In the tsunami of Overwhelm, can you give yourself a moment of Gentle?

Feb 19 •

January 2025

December 2024

Really? Light in the Darkness? Hope in Grief? Beauty in Brokeness?

..... Maybe. Maybe. Maybe that's how Love shows up?

Dec 18, 2024 •

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