Life is like this water bottle

When my dad returned from Israel years ago, he brought back a water bottle with Hebrew on it. At the time, I remember thinking it looked pretty cool. Years later, when I started sifting though…

The best answers have no questions

When I first meet someone, I like to ask lots of questions. I ask everything from the mundane (“What’s your favorite color?”) to the downright unexpected (“If you were a circus performer, what would you…

How not to lie

He wasn’t angry. He was annoyed and disappointed. “I just wish they’d quit lying to me.” He’d ventured over to the brand new basketball courts on campus to check them out and maybe shoot around…