The Barbershop

A riddle, like all metaphors, stains various window panes so that we can see a picture.

Let’s examine some practical possibilities.

In a world where most everything is permissible, civil disobedience can only be achieved through an action that is socially deplorable yet morally acceptable.

As we moved around, I might have said that home is a feeling. Or rather, you know you’re at home because of a feeling. I think I’d argue with myself now after…

Earlier in 2025 the U.S. Mint began reducing penny production, with the last of the coins struck on November 12th ... The reason the mint ceased production was because the cost to…

A city of gray concrete invokes the same belonging and responsibility as if there were a home decorated with nothing but concrete.

I walked into the makeshift classroom, saw quotations from McGuffey’s Eclectic Readers all around the walls, and assumed I was entering a traditionally conservative environment. But after a day of presentations and…

Because those dancing it have worked and stretched and warmed up for three months prior to performance, breaking in shoes and bandaging toes, the dream is anchored by reality.

Leave a comment to thank Mark. Add your good wishes to mine. He deserves them.

This stranger, rain or shine, snow or hail, more religiously than I prayed as a child, lifted the flap and dropped letters into my family’s home.

A whole-hog way of seeing.

Practices that began as bounded places we visited have thinned into atmospheres we inhabit.