OK, so this better be good.  I can’t promise you anything, really, except that it will be true.  And that I’ll finally be able to work in the Olympics next time. During our 21 years of marriage, there has never been…

When we come upon a contrast that’s an adjacency — two very different things side by side, co-existing in harmony — we can often find some delight in observing it or perhaps even living in it.  When, on the other…

It doesn’t surprise me one bit, and I know it won’t surprise you either, that my recent Road Trip in the Heartland (starting and ending in Indianapolis) provided about as many examples of my beloved side-by-side contrasts as there were…

It’s Convention time, all across the land, and my son Henry and I are getting a pretty good education in what goes on at these multi-day, resource-intensive, hotel-based, name-tagged events as we take our road trip through several states. We…

It’s been wonderful having our older son home with us for a couple of weeks, just in time for the NBA playoffs.  I love joining him in front of the TV, partly just to be with him and partly because…

The theme of this blog, as I tried to articulate it in “A Welcome Message” at the top of the site, is about the richness of contrasting experiences.  In that first essay, I offered the image of how a certain…

So now it’s official:  I’m not quite the Bishop’s Wife yet because he’s not quite the Bishop of New Hampshire yet, but I am the Wife (I’ll keep the capital letter, thank you very much) of the Bishop Coadjutor Elect,…

We have a kind of a mix-up going on in our marriage:  my husband, the introvert, is encouraging me, the extrovert, to follow his lead and get a Facebook account.   I’m on the Facebook Fence. Talk about turning the tables.  …

When we have a “moving experience,” it usually means we are enriched by it in some way — affected emotionally, even pulled to a place where new vistas open up for us.  The actual experience of moving, however, is usually…