On the Way Home

 On the last two trips to Jordan, November 2022 and March 2023, we were fortunate to meet with a tribal sheikh in Petra. He hosted us in his...

 Which my great friend Erik says would be a great name for a band. Yes, I've survived another Ramadan, and my dear friends Kevin and Mar...

 One of my students snapped this picture on the recent trip to Jordan. It was a bittersweet trip because it's the last student trip that...

 I guess it wasn't a total surprise - or even much of a surprise - but my son recently asked his girlfriend Ali to marry him. Naturally,...

Someday, inshallah, we will return to a more regular rotation of the Gary Beatrice Discography (it will give Alice something to focus other ...

 "Page by page I slowly and lucidly reread everything I've written, and I find that it's all worthless and should have been lef...

 One of the things that Cyndi and Steve and I often remark upon, quietly and privately, is how few students actually say thank you after the...