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Delivered Thursday, November 3, 2022, at James Weldon Johnson Park in Jacksonville, Florida, at UNF OneJax Institute’s Vigil for Unity and Hope, in response to antisemitic messages in Jacksonville over the October 28-30 weekend, on a banner on a highway overpass and digital words projected on to TIAA Bank Field and a high rise downtown. … Continue reading Speech in Solidarity with Jacksonville Jewish Community

Written for the Jax 100 Contest, commemorating 200 years of Jacksonville, Florida, and look forward to the next 100 years July 10, 2022 A river flows through the city, sparkling like crystal. For three hundred miles it has crawled north, lazily, as its history has crawled through time. The flow of a long history, the … Continue reading By the River

This is for my students and anyone who has ever asked about what made me tick as a Christian. I love a good Chili cookoff, all the varieties lined up in the school cafeteria or the fellowship hall at church. Every recipe a unique mix of ingredients. Everything in it comes together to be that … Continue reading A Daily Jot – July 6, 2022 – A Recipe for Faith

I don’t write much poetry and am not sure I am any good at it, subjectivity aside, but this morning felt like a poem rather than prose, so I tried to capture it as such. I kept on thinking about the day and saying to myself, it’s not a metaphor. Poem on July 4 I … Continue reading A Daily Jot – July 4, 2022 – Poem on July 4

A social media viral post has been going around on Mother’s and Father’s days in recent years, sympathizing with those for whom these days are hard. For those who have lost their parents, for those with absent or abusive parents, for those who wanted to be parents but it never happened, for those who are … Continue reading A Daily Jot – June 19, 2022 – Our Father, Our Mother, Our Neighbor