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Living with an Intruder
After fifty years, I can finally say his name without bitterness...and what I have learned from living with an unlikely partner…a lifelong relationship with an intruder that I…
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The Myth of Aging Gracefully
I have heard the phrase “aging gracefully” one too many times…and I need to do a bit of ranting. I hope you will bear with me. I sometimes…
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Dekker on Ice Fishing
The calendar insists spring is near, though the yard has not yet agreed. Sometimes, when the snow lingers longer than anyone thinks reasonable, I ask Dekker to weigh…
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Two Kinds of Time
I live, like most people, inside two kinds of time. The first is the kind that happens on clocks and calendars. It measures, schedules, reminds, and evaluates.It tells…
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The Pilgrimage of Aging
“I can’t control what’s happening in the world.But I can put one foot in front of the other and walk my pilgrimage.” — Joanna Penn
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Have You Practiced Yet?
I use the phrase spiritual practice a lot, and I’m aware that, for some readers, this phrase makes things more complicated than necessary. What if we simply talk…
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Illness Through a Dog’s Eyes
What Love Looks Like When Healing Is Slow Woof woof, friends,Something shifted in the house a couple of weeks ago—before anyone said a word.Illness has a way of…
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The Problem of Tears
There are phrases that seem to be part of the air we breathed growing up. Not formal teachings. Not even written rules.
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Illness as a Spiritual Practice
Illness as a spiritual practice? I would rather not think so... I’ve written a number of reflections over the years about spiritual practice as it appears in daily…
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Learning to Live at Sixty – A Reflection on Aging
Aging alone, I was sitting in a wheelchair on the 4th floor of a busy rehab hospital—five hundred miles from home—on my 60th birthday. Not even a simple…
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Dekker’s Thoughts About Legacy
Woof woof… it’s me, Dekker. I’m lying here in my favorite sunspot while my person taps on her keyboard about something called legacy...and I wonder...
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December Dopamine
What is it about December that stirs up so much wanting inside me? It happens every year. The daylight shrinks, the calendar fills, the stores explode with glitter,…
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Seven Step Prayer
I have just finished re-reading, probably for the third time, “The Soul of a Pilgrim” by Christine Valters Paintner. In her book she refers to a seven-step prayer…
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December Declutter
I’ve never been one for jingle bells and reindeer in December. In fact the closest I have come to a reindeer was an old workhorse that belonged to…
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Dekker, On Wisdom, Worry and The Weight of the World
Maybe it’s the season of “too”: too much news, too many expectations, too many lists. Or maybe it’s that time feels heavier when the light fades early. Whatever…
