Click to listen to Little Room In 2001, I was on a plane traveling back home from an international trip. On the final leg of the journey I sat next to a young man that had an appearance that seemed to promise an interesting conversation on the hour flight from Chicago to Omaha. If I …
There are times when I encounter something so beautiful, so moving, I am compelled to stop everything I’m dong and pay attention. My good friend Warrior put this next song on a mixtape for me in 2007. I always appreciate his judgment and perspective when it comes to art. When I didn’t understand Once Upon …
This next song has been with me since it was released in 2000. It’s a Song of Songs in my book because of how it has spoken to me over the last 20 years. After the turn of the millennium, I entered a very dark tunnel, but there was no light at the other end. …
During hospice I had to train myself to pay attention to Karen’s voice, for there were times I would hear my name called out during the night, only to get up and look in on her and she was sound asleep. It got to the point when I would wake to the sound of my …
Listen to The Beauty in Grief Playlist on Spotify I dream a lot at night, and my dreams are not always rational or coherent. But I take them very seriously and write them down so I can remember them and call on them at a later time. I don’t really consider why there was a …
The Friday evening after Karen’s memorial service, a gathering of a few of my dear friends and family members met in my backyard around the firepit to continue on in honor of Karen. The weather was unseasonably warm for November. The waning gibbous moon was beginning to rise in the east. Glasses of Karen-pour whiskey …
My book is scheduled to ship to LNK late next week and I’m very excited to get it into your hands to read and remember the place that I loved creating. At 275 pages, 166 full-color photographs, the finished hardcover product is beautiful, reflecting the talent of the team that worked so diligently to bring …
I’m not sure why, but my sense of smell is acute. It’s not like I worked at developing it or practiced in the off season to improve. But it’s a part of me that I’ve learned to lean into and enjoy. It helps me in my cooking and management of a kitchen. I could walk …
As many of you can tell from my Instagram posts (@breadandcup), I’ve been traveling a lot these last two months. I love to travel but did not have the opportunity for several years. Since a college student, I’ve always had the desire to set out on the road to step into the unknown. Sometimes watching …
Years ago, in response to cancer’s invasion, Karen put these 6 words on the west wall of our bedroom. It took until last year for the truth of them to fully sink into my being. Truth is like that. I can mentally agree with a statement while at the same time not feel it in …