I love having my family home for the holidays. With every passing year, it becomes less about the festivities themselves and more about presence, togetherness, and fun. And then, as it always does, the house empties, and everyone returns to their own lives. I’ve come to appreciate this moment just as much. These precious days after the celebrations have ended and before the new year begins feel like sacred time to me. A natural pause. A chance to unwind from the busyness and

Three Things!   Three scary things! Spider, crocodile, Halloween!   Three Things! Three Things!   Three capital cities! Paris, London, Timbuktu!   Three Things! We stand in a circle pumping our fists to the rhythm of the words, our voices getting louder and our laughter ever more raucous. It’s my first improv class. Ten people playing games that have us feeling terrifyingly exposed. An instructor that thankfully knows what he is doing, while the rest of us really don’t. I cam

Image: Joseph Barrientos / Unsplash On the day he flew away from the White House after serving as president, George W. Bush was ready to...