In my world, America is moving on! eCommerce continues to replace steel and glass. Eight years after Sears closed its doors, many of the storefronts in my local shopping mall are now shuttered. I walk the halls looking for bargains. I encounter another shopper and we recognize each other as fellow diehards. Together, we […]
The Schweers No-Pain Weight-Loss Plan
2024-03-21 — When the scale hit 203 today, I resolved to lose weight. My biggest challenge may be that I hate planning, timetables, and schedules. I like having my options open at all times. More than that, I love the idea of the unfettered life, doing what I want when I want. Yes, yes, […]
Reflections on my Christian Faith
Every few weeks, I reflect on the challenges of being a Christian. I began these essays in January 2022 when my church — the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in downtown Wilmington, Delaware — started looking for a new rector. The previous rector had written short musings every week. With his pen silent, […]
Father, Son and Holy Spirit – A Kite Analogy
In 2009, I wrote that our relationship to the Trinity is like a kite. The wind of the Spirit lifts us; Christ, the string, connects us to our Father, the steady ground. How high shall we glidebefore we are gathered in? Fifteen years later, while reading Bohumil Hrabal’s 1976 short story “Too Loud A Solitude”, […]
Day 2, Abandoned ATM
Our second day on the road was like a dream. First, we were in Warrenton, Virginia, a charming town self-consciously holding onto the past, to the point of not having traffic lights downtown. Then we climbed west on the Lee Highway to Shenandoah National Park, hoping to take Skyline Drive south, but the higher we […]
Things kept going wrong but that didn’t bother us.
Why did our companionship, in spite of events, continue as cheerfully as ever? Why didn’t our spirits sink? First, the Uber driver’s map app took him to the other side of Central Park from where we were actually waiting in the dark and the cold. Then, having arrived at last at our destination, we saw […]