by jeffrey | Apr 29, 2021 | Non-fiction
Our wheels touched down before noon at the airport in Puerto Vallarta, an overcooked tourist town on the sunset coast of Mexico, pinched between arid tropical mountains and a long sandy beach. I’d been up since four a.m., fifteen minutes before my alarm went off, to...
by jeffrey | Feb 26, 2021 | Non-fiction
I was always a little suspicious when someone said there were only 5 love languages. After some years of gathering, here are some additions that I have found with my wife and family: writing/singing jolly love songs by the water with s’mores texting rude or...
by jeffrey | Feb 23, 2021 | Non-fiction
The first one I discovered on Radio Swiss Classical (which if you haven’t discovered yet, you should check out. There’s also Radio Swiss Jazz. Both have no commercials and just play music.) Not all classical music contains moments of sublimity, but when...
by jeffrey | May 3, 2014 | Non-fiction
One of my working theories about humanity has to do with the continuity and discontinuity between people and animals. How much are we “family” with the animal kingdom? What evidence is there that we are different than animals? Where does the break take...
by jeffrey | Oct 28, 2013 | Non-fiction
[Once upon a time, I had a blog called The Vale of Tears. I had to leave it behind. This is my new blog in which I contribute to the great conversation. You can get email updates by clicking “follow” out to the side. It wont hurt. It wont fill your inbox...
