The Sophia Project

I lived in Minnesota for four years. As a native Southerner, the first question most people asked me when I moved back home was, “So, how were the winters?”. Winter in Minnesota is difficult to describe. It must be experienced. It’s not just the cold. It’s the sheer depth and breadth of cold, the weeks [...]

Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery it is. In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace. [...]

In two weeks I turn 40 years old. I hardly know what to make of that number. Four-Oh. 40. Four decades. I’ve been alive for a while now. Most days it surprises me, how long I’ve been here on this planet, how many years I’ve lived inside this body. I’m not dreading turning 40 like [...]

My cat has diabetes. Tucker is 11 years old, and until last week has been uniformly, perfectly healthy the entire time he’s lived with me. He’s a big guy, over 18 pounds, and over 3 feet long from stem to stern. I know this because my vet in Minnesota once squished him out flat on [...]