The Books of 2024

December 4, 2024

This has been a surprisingly abundant reading year; here are the books I read in the order that I read …

Commitment: another word for Love

December 18, 2019

A man who would say, ‘I love you now, but how long it will last I cannot tell,’ does not …

June 13, 2018

Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the …

June 4, 2018

Today my wife and I are celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary. When a couple manages to be together this long …

September 6, 2017

Some time ago Emily Esfahani Smith wrote an interesting article in The Atlantic titled “Masters of Love: Science says lasting relationships …

June 7, 2017

‘Procreating in Beauty’ is the role of the imagination wedded to creation. Jacques Maritain He has made everything beautiful in …

May 31, 2017

Good Arguments, Bad Arguments: “In a marriage there are good arguments and bad arguments” begins Paul Carter in his article, …