The Swiss are known for many things: their chocolate, their neutrality, their banking, and their precision watches. In this age of digital everything, I’m fascinated by the workmanship, detail, and skill in handmade
What Are You Thinking About?
Have you ever noticed someone staring into space with a blank, far-off look on their face? Or maybe that was you, lost deep in thought, caught up in another time, another place. I remember getting in trouble
Spring Breakup
It was spring, and the ice on the river was just breaking up along the shore. The boy, about eleven years old, kept asking his father if he could go fishing as the salmon were expected to start their yearly run up
Created to Do Good Works
About 10 years ago, I built two identical benches from the same wood, both four feet long, both varnished. One of them found its usefulness at the foot of our bed. We use it every day to sit on as we
Come Find Me
When I was nine my family moved 400 miles away from the home, school, church, extended family, and friends I knew so well. We moved to a city I knew nothing about and where I knew no one. Up until
Have You Touched Him?
On the north shore of the Sea of Galilee is a chapel with a large mural depicting the story told in Mark’s Gospel, Chapter 5:24-34. We see a woman in a crowd where she should not have been, as she was