Tommy’s Window on the World

Hank sat on the bank’s edge, fishing pole in one hand, a thick cigar in the other, and his middle…

By the time anyone heard Tom coming, it was already too late to pretend they weren’t home. The old truck…

As my eighty-fifth birthday approaches, I’ve taken on the challenge of telling my life’s story in just ten sentences, a…

As the years accumulate, so do the values that steer a life. Some prove noble, some less so, but all…

The old man stared at the tools hanging on the rough-planked wall of his workshop. The two-person crosscut saw and…

All four of my grandparents wrapped me in love as I grew from a skinny mountain boy into a young…

In 2014, my wife and I boarded a plane and flew to London, England, to spend a week touring the…

The Words We Choose Did you know the average English-speaking adult wields a vocabulary of 20,000 to 35,000 words? Yet…

Throughout our lives, each of us encounters loss. Sometimes it’s a fleeting setback; other times it reshapes the landscape of…