Pandemic - an opportunity to live slower, with less buzzing around.

I wrote about our new dog a couple weeks back. I described how he and our cat had not yet met, because our cat stayed in the bedroom for...

What would I like my last words to be? In recent months I have lost four special friends. In each case, I did not know at the time that...

We have a new dog. He is a four-year-old male who is very gentle and easy to train, a breed that seldom barks, but loves to play. Likes...

Most of this winter I have been waiting for a nice bed of snow to develop so I could go cross-country skiing. Sixty acres of woods lie...

It’s there for me any time. I just have to reach for it, and I’m stuck. I have become addicted to something. It's the News on my phone.

If you are in the habit of asking young people “What did you get for Christmas,” like my wife does, you will appreciate what happened to...

Your home, like ours, is probably full of machines, gadgets, motors, perhaps a Wi-Fi router and a smart TV, all designed to make our...

A couple decades ago I was given a four-month sabbatical. I thought I could learn what I needed, but it took twenty years.

We had plans for this Thanksgiving. Our plans were interrupted by some unexpected problems. At one point, we said to each other, “Let’s...

The weather has dumped early snows and sometimes rain on thousands of acres of crop land not yet harvested. During November we have had ove

Twenty five years ago you might have read a brief notice: “Local pastor, Stan Hagemeyer, died of smoke inhalation in a cabin in Maine."

Yes, we were meant to travel, but not this way. A couple weeks ago, I made a trip to see family in Seattle. I did that because we have...

The sun is like God . . . maybe

Many people these days are multitasking, doing several things at once. Perhaps it is juggling the phone while stirring a pot of soup. ...

The little living room was crowded. His hospital bed along the wall, with just enough space for his loving companion to stand on the...

I don’t know how much time I have. I just know for sure that it is limited. As I zoomed past another decade mark a few months ago, I...

My hiking shoes have a set of rigid bumps molded into the soles designed to grip the ground I walk. They give me a sure hold on mother...

While getting ready for school shopping I wonder how many parents had conversations with kids about getting pre-washed jeans with holes...

It had to be there somewhere. During a recent visit to Illinois I saw what I had hoped to find, evidence that my Hagemeyer grandfather’s...