AdminJan 9, 20213 minGod DeliversI ordered a several things from Ebay last month—things I was excited about. One of them was this vintage locket that looks like a little...
AdminDec 12, 20205 minSome People Will Never Understand You, and That's OKWhen we first moved from the big city to a sleepy little town where nobody knew me, my introverted brain had been overloaded,...
AdminJan 20, 20202 minBehind the ScenesMy friend over at Unfading Beauty and Strength asked folks on her Facebook page to describe 2019 in a GIF. This was mine. Last year was a
AdminAug 31, 20193 minWhen Accomplishment isn’t the Highest CallI am a doer of things. I’m all about the to-do lists, the completion of tasks, the self-satisfaction of being capable, and the sense of fulf
AdminMay 7, 20192 minSeasonsI don’t know what I’m going to write here. Lately everything…everything except doing absolutely nothing…feels hard. Really hard. Part of thi
AdminNov 7, 20182 minPerseverance - See What Happens if You Don’t Give InShe wanted to see what happened if she didn’t give in…. I saw this sentence as a headline on an article about losing weight. Oddly enough, t
AdminSep 17, 20182 minThese Small BeginningsLast week, I was working on a big project, and my procrastination level reached heretofore unimagined heights. I literally lay on the floor,
AdminAug 15, 20182 minAm I Good Enough?It seems like everyone out there is trying to be enough, convince themselves they’re enough, prove to everyone else they’re enough. And I’m
AdminJan 5, 20182 minHow Writing a Book is Like Raising a ChildOn December 5, 2017, I completed the book I began in the summer of 2008. That’s nearly ten years of something just hanging around taking up
AdminDec 3, 20163 minBroad Strokes Paint Poor PortraitsI know this has been happening since time immemorial, but in the past year, I have been increasingly disappointed by seemingly rational peop
AdminApr 4, 20162 minNot PerfectAre you perfect? I know I’m not. I don’t even want to pretend to figure a percentage. I fail – a LOT. When I was younger, I had some notion
AdminFeb 27, 20166 minTruth is Truer in Narnia or Finding Transcendence in ArtI love good art not because it reminds me of reality, but because it gives me hope that there is something beyond the reality I see. I love
AdminFeb 8, 20162 minTo Say or Not to SayI am a “say-er” of things. By that, I mean that I almost always say something if I think it needs to be said. If I have a poor customer serv
AdminFeb 1, 20166 minOn Writing and ProcrastinationI am highly qualified to write this post, because I am chief of procrastinators when it comes to writing. For example, I’m doing it right no
AdminDec 7, 20126 minConflict UnresolutionI’ve been dealing a lot with the idea of what I thought was “conflict resolution” in my head lately, until I realized that what I needed to
AdminNov 16, 20103 minThe Up-Side of HumilityI think that in the past two years, I have been learning valuable lessons in humility…but it hasn’t felt very good. I guess that for most o
AdminMar 13, 20103 minWhy?Hello, world. It’s been a very long time. As to the why…I don’t really have a reason. If anyone cares to read the last post from Dec, 200
AdminDec 4, 20088 minPursuing What You LoveA bundle of appetites. That’s what I am as a bodily entity. This fleshly tent in which I abide is intent on and, unfortunately, often conten
AdminApr 24, 20083 minBuried or Planted?Bury: to put in the ground and cover with earth Plant: To put in the ground and cover, as seed for growth God asked me on Sunday if I was bu
AdminJun 22, 20075 minWhat If They’re Right?he day before yesterday, I was sitting talking to my neighbor. I loaned her a book by one of my favorite authors a while back, and she told