My latest autobiographical essay has just been published in the fall issue of the Communities Magazine (#212 September 2026, pp. 66-69). The full essay is available here.
There is a particular kind of exhilaration that comes not from soaring, but from choosing to jump. —Søren Kierkegaard
I have jumped many times. I stumbled often. I hope to jump again. I have not always jumped with exhilaration or from solid ground. Some of my most important leaps began with a slow, private recognition that something essential had stopped working—a marriage that no longer provided the closeness I was yearning for, a faith whose beliefs no longer matched my understanding, a professional identity which has run its course. The jumping came later. First came the long, uncomfortable season of sensing or knowing that something is off…The full essay is available here.