Glory.

A woman who’d lost her husband the night before broke down in line for coffee at a Washington drive-through (Dutch Bros.),and the workers there — young people — stopped to pray with her. I don’t know. This is the kind of thing that gives praying people a good name — and people who don’t pray …

This is our blizzard from space

On Sunday morning, astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo of the aftermath of Jonas, which is a really hard name to take seriously for a violent winter storm, but there you are. Jonas stomped up the eastern seacoast this weekend, and left some towns measuring the snowfall in feet, not inches. (Central Park got nearly two feet, if that …

I love teaching, now that the panic dreams are over

I am in my fourth week of full-time teaching, and let me tell you the things I’ve learned in the interim: 1. My mad organizational skills aren’t that awesome but fortunately 2. Students stand ready to help guide me when I get confused, and 3. The coffee at the end of my hallway at University of New …

Thank you, Islamic world, for the coffee and democracy

And thank you, Leftover, for this link. And Ramadan Mubarak to our Muslim brothers and sisters.