Journal

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Someday Finally Showed Up and it looked exactly like a corner booth at Mr. D’s 66 Diner in Kingman, Arizona. Both had the burger and the Root Beer float. Both had the pie. They had been married forty-nine years and eleven months and they were somewhere in the middle … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast She Drove It Anyway and nobody in her life tried to talk her out of it. That part surprised her. She had braced for the pushback, the raised eyebrows, the quiet chorus of are you sure about this. Instead her teenage kids helped her pack. Her sister put a … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Note You Leave Behind doesn’t require a conversation. It doesn’t require an introduction or an explanation or even eye contact. It just requires paying attention long enough to notice that the person next to you at the counter is carrying something heavy today. I’ve logged enough miles on … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast What the Road Taught Me didn’t come from a book or a classroom or a motivational weekend. It came from a diner stool, a long stretch of highway, and enough miles to finally stop arguing with the quiet. I’ve spent a good portion of my life on the road. … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Man Who Drove Every Road sat down next to me like he had done it a thousand times, because he had. Different counter, different state, same stool. He drove cars for dealerships. Picked them up in one place, delivered them somewhere else, and filled the miles in between … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Kindness costs nothing. I didn’t know I needed reminding of that until I was sitting in a diner booth watching a parking lot. It wasn’t a remarkable morning. Coffee. A window seat. The kind of quiet that settles in before the day gets loud. I wasn’t looking for anything. … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Grace takes the detour on I-40 just out of Kingman. I wanted the Straight shot. Efficient. The kind of drive that gets you somewhere without asking much of you along the way. But I missed the ramp. No signal, no GPS worth trusting, just heat waves and a frontage … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Kindness is not always reactive. I didn’t fully understand that until a pie sign in a diner case made it plain. It wasn’t a remarkable day. Just the road and a reason to stop. I pulled in the way I’ve pulled into a hundred diners along this route. Counter … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Coffee Came Back while I was sitting at a Route 66 diner not long ago, hands wrapped around a cup of coffee, watching the quiet rhythm of the morning unfold. The kind of place where the plates clink softly, the coffee keeps coming, and nobody’s in too much of … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast I was sitting at a diner counter not long ago with both hands wrapped around a warm cup of coffee, the kind of quiet moment where the world slows down just enough for a thought to find you. A saying came to mind that I’ve carried for years. Most … Read more