Fruitful Detours
I recently had a day that was just one long line after another, waiting for a while here and then there. I was traveling, which on reflection seems to lend itself to lines, but I wasn’t thinking about that then. I was just frustrated. It started because my first flight was early — so early […]
There was a strange coincidence last week. Valentine’s Day and Ash Wednesday were on the same day, February 14, 2024. It seemed to me that this juxtaposition between love and death was worthy of some thought. Love is the most life-giving thing that I can think of. And ashes are about death. “Ashes to ashes […]
I had a birthday recently. It hit me harder than most. It brought me back to my most consequential birthday – when I turned 27. Yes, I was a baby. But worse than that, I was a privileged, intense, ambitious baby with a firm belief that I was the best thing since sliced bread. I […]
This is an occasional story series. To start the story at the beginning, click here. Kenneth Jerome Kasey was as smart as they come. That didn’t always mean that he was the best lawyer. It was his extracurricular interests that made the cowboy his friend. “It’s the border stuff,” Kenny said. “If I had to […]