If you make a pot of soup (unlike a baseball field) people will not necessarily come, you have to invite folks to your table, especially if the invitation is a call to deeper truth and love. Yes, stay with me, I’m going there! The word hospitality derives from the Latin word hospes, meaning host, guest, […]

The house is completely quiet, my roommates have taken off for the day, Kelley (who is visiting from Boston) is working in San Francisco, Larry has back to back meetings at the office, and Dante is working out of town, even the dog has gone to the groomer. I have the entire house to myself, […]

“What the hell happened to so and so,” I ask my sister during one of our early morning coffee chats. “I don’t know, haven’t heard from her in years,” she said. “Strange.” “Very.” Autumn makes me nostalgic, not in a celebratory way like New Year’s, but in a sow what you reap sort of way, […]

There are many ways in which we can improve each others lives and I realize I spend a lot of time thinking about this possibility, it’s why I write, and hopefully why you read Living in the Gap. As T.F. Hodge claims, dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it…then proceed […]