There is great temptation to look for comfort in the news. “Oh, if I just scroll a little longer, I might find what I’m looking for." But that’s a bit like going to the hardware store for milk, isn’t it? The news isn’t designed to

On a cloudless October Sunday, I walked up to a barn in Maine’s rural western foothills with a couple of camp chairs. The barn was filled with many people who were new to me. But most all of them had been loved by a veterinarian. A veterinarian who had

Saturday, I turned away from the election coverage, the breaking alerts that mostly break our focus, and I cleaned out the basement. For me, this cleaning falls into two buckets. There’s the easier organization of tossing out brittle paint brushes, gathering the multiple cans of WD40 in multiple different