Soon after the Eaton fire, Jill and I visited the ruins of our former neighborhood.  Jill directed my eye to one prominent object still standing upright amid all the destruction.  It was a sculpture by our neighbor, the artist Christopher “Kit” Davis.  Every house surrounding it had been reduced to ash.  How striking it was… Read More

According to the latest numbers from LA County, the combined Eaton and Palisades fires destroyed more than 16,000 structures. One of them was a Tudor-style house at the end of Norwic Place in Altadena. Since 2011, Jill, Lucy, and I had called that house our home. On January 8th, 2025, it burned to the ground.… Read More

At the age of 35, Kate Bowler was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer.  The doctors told her that she likely had only two years left to live.  It was 2015, and Bowler was working at the time as a professor of Christianity at Duke University.  She had a husband and baby son.  And she… Read More