Easing into the start of our journey's third week I awoke to the news that Mr. B.B. King has died. It is too easy, albeit true, to note ...

As noted earlier, today was a total rest day - with something unexpected. We hadn't really thought much about the fact that I was born i...

There has always been a tension in my theology around action and contemplation - the outward and the inward journey - the commitment to jus...

Ok, it is now 14 days into the groove and we are both FINALLY starting to slow down. Granted, we started this gig in two high powered places...

Somewhere I read that the "rabbis" advise the pilgrim NOT to try to pray for three days while travelling: we need to let our s...

Doing what comes naturally! One of my friends who helped plan our sabbatical said, upon watching this clip:  All our late nights and hard w...

One of my abiding rituals is writing this blog most mornings come rain or shine. Sometimes what I have to post is banal, I know. From time t...

Today - Friday - we finally arrived in Nashville - and now it feels like the sabbatical has started. In NYC it felt like a vacation, and tha...

One more quick one:  on our last day in NYC we went by the old Fillmore East for old times sake.  I saw countless concerts there with my bro...

We are moving very slowly today.  It took us much longer yesterday to get to Roanoke, VA than we planned - mostly because of a wicked harsh ...

We had a great day celebrating our 20th anniversary. These pictures were taken during dinner at Jules - a French bistro on St.Mark's Pla...