Companions in Time Archives

I Feel Lost

I know everyone feels lost sometimes. That feeling of being lost seems an understandable consequence of trying to fit into a world that seems...

I’ve heard that we come into this world alone and will leave it alone. But far more real for me is the network of...

I was lingering beside the job board, long after the rush of job seekers had moved on. My eyes followed a man sweeping the...

I’ve just been published in two places: a book I’ve been working on for the past three years (“Winter Came Early; Reflections on Outliving...

Would it be too much if I bring up Goldilocks again? She is such a looming figure of right conduct, and still has so...

Am I the only one who wonders how all those animals knew that there was a man building a gigantic boat on a hilltop...

Here is the first paragraph of an essay of mine that has just been published in the Winter 2020 edition of Kosmos, Journal for...

Walking our dogs every day, I reacquaint myself with how badly-trained we both are. I can’t blame the one I walk for the fact...

The fairy tales and myths that have come down to us are fractured memories of a community and the problems that befell those who...

It’s certainly easier said than done, but I’ve begun to understand an ancient insight: that when I encounter circumstances that I am unable to...