Go Back In · Week 1 · Tuesday He missed it. The one his son had been counting down to for six weeks, marking off on the calendar in the kitchen where everybody could see it. There was a real…
Four Days in the Doorway
The Number She Would Not Say
Go Back In · Week 1 · Monday She lost the money in March. It is August. It was not a catastrophe. It was worse than that, in the particular way these things are worse — it was avoidable. A…
The Man Who Walked In Anyway
Go Back In · Week 1 · Sunday There is a law in Leviticus that most people have never read, and it explains the loneliest verse in the first chapter of Mark. If you had a skin disease in Israel,…
What It Cost To Put Down
Passion · Week 2 · Saturday On Sunday I asked you to find the grievance you’d defend hardest. I found mine in about two seconds, which was its own answer. I’m not going to tell you what it is. Not…
It Does Not Stay Put
Passion · Week 2 · Friday Every story this week has had a person in it. A brother. A colleague. A wife. A mother. Someone whose name you could say, who did a thing, who could in principle be forgiven….
It Was Still Wrong
Passion · Week 2 · Thursday She is forty-three, and something happened in her house when she was a girl, and her mother has never really talked about it. Not denied. That would almost be easier — denial is at…
Before The Sun Goes Down
Passion · Week 2 · Wednesday Eleven years married. It’s nine at night, the dishwasher is running, and his wife has just said something about him that was accurate and unkind at the same time. Both halves matter. If it…
Not Everything Needs A Verdict
Passion · Week 2 · Tuesday She’s thirty-four and four months into a new team, still at the stage where she reads the room more carefully than she’d like to admit. On Thursday a colleague walked the leadership group through…
The Speech He Has Perfected
Passion · Week 2 · Monday He is fifty-eight, and nine years ago his younger brother handled the sale of their father’s business in a way he considered a betrayal. He has an account of it. Everyone who knows him…
SOMETHING IS BURNING WELL
Passion · Week 2 · Sunday Something Is Burning Well There was a stretch two springs ago when I got more done in six weeks than I had all year. Up before anyone else. Inbox clear by seven. Decisions I’d…