The Last Summer Greg had just come back home to me last summer after a trip with his wife. They went to Malaysia and Thailand, then he flew home. Everywhere Greg went, he video-chatted with me, letting me see the places he was seeing. He loved trees and nature. He loved beauty, wonder, and the […]

If my heart could tell a story for Greg, it wouldn’t begin with the ending. It would begin with your laugh – the kind that entered a room before you did and changed the air. You were never small, not even as a boy. You carried wonder like a compass, angled toward what was true, […]

“The LORD bless you and keep you; the LORD make his face shine on you and be gracious to you.” -Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV) His hug enveloped me – as if the strength of his arms could stop, if only for us, what was happening on the other side of the world. As if holding each […]

For Greg Greg traveled a lot. I always found that interesting about him – how naturally he moved through the world, curious and open, never afraid of people or places. His love for people was deep and wide. But animals of all kinds loved him, too. On one of the many hikes he and his […]

Greg Greg loved the pyramids – but not because they were serious. He loved them because they were impossible. Because someone once looked at empty desert and said, why not? Because history, for all its weight, still leaves room for laughter. Greg loved life that way. Curious. Playful. Wide-open. He could turn a fact into […]

  The Year 2025 That Ends, the Love That Remains Greg did not leave this world empty-handed. He left behind a kind of strength that cannot be measured, only felt. It lives in the way his love still steadies us when the ground gives way. It appears in moments when grief should knock us flat, […]

December 18 – Greg’s Birthday He gave me this ornament in August, which is why it matters. Christmas was never really his thing – too much, too loud, too expected. But that day, in the ordinary warmth of late summer, he handed me something meant for a tree we weren’t even thinking about yet. “I […]

“He Lived With His Whole Heart” For Greg He moved through this world with a spirit that refused to dim – a man who found joy in the tiniest corners of life, and chased wonder where most people never thought to look. Books, history, distant places – they weren’t hobbies to him, they were lifelines. […]

“Where The Pages Came Alive” For Greg I could never get him out of a bookstore. Not ever. Last summer we walked in “just for a minute,” And stayed And stayed And stayed Because the moment he stepped inside, Something in him lit up. It was like watching a sunrise break open right In front […]