Monthly Archives: November 2025

It’s a Secret

I just finished Dan Brown’s latest book. This isn’t a review — more a moment of noticing. Mystery novels rely on a kind of agreed-upon lie. Something terrible or hidden sits at the center, and we pretend we don’t see … Continue reading

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The Dust Speck and the Vow

https://a.co/d/dnK0hcr I once spent six hours removing 1,247 dust specks from a Kodachrome slide my father shot in 1966. No one asked me to. My mother cried when she saw the print. She didn’t know why. That was enough. If … Continue reading

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