Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I have friends I can go weeks without talking to and then pick right back up as though we talked yesterday. Nobody starts the conversation with an explanation about where they’ve been. There isn’t a long apology because one of us didn’t return a text three Tuesdays ago….
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Pull Up a Chair: September 11, 2026
Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I come from a family that tells the same stories over and over again. I don’t mean occasionally either. We have stories that have been told so many times everyone at the table knows exactly what is coming next, and somehow that has never stopped the person telling…
Pull Up a Chair: September 4, 2026
Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I was thinking the other day about how you can tell how comfortable someone is in your house by what they do when they arrive. There are people who knock on the front door, wait patiently for you to answer, and wouldn’t dream of opening your refrigerator without…
Pull Up a Chair: August 28, 2026
Pull up a chair and stay awhile. Well, here we are. In just a couple of days I’ll turn fifty, and I have to admit that’s a sentence I never imagined saying out loud. I remember being a kid and thinking fifty was old. Not just a little older. I mean old enough that you…
Pull Up a Chair: August 21, 2026
Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I’ve been thinking about something lately, and maybe it’s because this is my birthday month. Maybe it’s because the older I get, the more I notice things I never paid much attention to when I was younger. Whatever the reason, I’ve realized that the things I appreciate most…
Pull Up a Chair: August 14, 2026
Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I’ve been thinking about conversations lately, and I’ve come to one conclusion that I don’t think anyone can convince me otherwise. The best conversations never start with small talk. Now, don’t get me wrong. Small talk has its place. It’s perfectly fine when you’re standing in line at…
Pull Up a Chair: August 7, 2026
Pull up a chair and stay awhile. I’ve been thinking about something this week, and if you’re anything like me, maybe you’ve noticed it too. When did we stop celebrating ordinary days? I’m not talking about birthdays, anniversaries, graduations, or Christmas morning. Those deserve celebrating, and I hope we never stop making them special. I’m…
Pull Up a Chair: July 31, 2026
Well friends, we’ve made it to the last day of July, and I have to admit I’m not entirely sure how that happened. It seems like just yesterday we were talking about Memorial Day, trying to decide whether it was finally warm enough to call it summer. Now here we are staring down August, wondering…
Pull Up a Chair: July 24, 2026
Well friends, here we are in the last full week of July, and I have reached that point in summer where I am both amazed by how quickly it is passing and convinced that this heat has been with us for approximately fourteen years. I don’t know how both things can be true at the…
Pull Up a Chair: July 17, 2026
Well friends, we’ve reached the middle of July, and I think it’s safe to say that summer has officially unpacked its bags and made itself comfortable. The heat isn’t visiting anymore. It’s moved in permanently, claimed a seat on the couch, and refuses to leave until sometime around October. Every year I forget this part…
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