My handwriting is celebrated as unsteady, shaky sessions that I call “scribbles”. My sentences often look like a mixture of crooked upper and lower case letters written by a four-year-old, falling diagonal outside of notebook paper lines. My scribbles remind me of an art form. My printing is illegible much of the time due read more
San Diego, CA / June 5, ’11 I sat in seat 4, section 127, row 28. I was in right field just beyond the yellow foul post in homerun territory. I had an uninhibited view, staring out into left field. Amid the crack of the bats and the cheering fans, my favorite thing about being read more
McKeesport, PA / January 13-17 ’11 I reconnected with a family that I had met about seven years ago in Papua New Guinea when I spoke at a missionary school for New Tribes Missions. Now back in McKeesport, and ministering in a local church in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, the Ryder family remembered my story read more
Crestline, CA / January 7-9, `11 I found myself envious of that innocence that is captured in the heart of a child. During my first winter camp of the season, I paused to reflect upon those years that seem so long ago. What ever happened to our stick figures drawn with colorful chalk on the read more
Wichita, KS / November 12-14, ‘10 This picture of a pier shows imperfection, not to mention that it is a long way from Kansas. The images are shaky and the backdrop is blurred. This seascape may not seem to offer much in the way of a photograph. And though it may be out of focus, read more
Calaveras County, CA / September 9-14, `10 “Am I pretty?” Her dad asked while four-year-old Fern was busy pretending to put makeup on his face. Without batting an eye and in an innocence that comes only from a child, she responded with impeccable timing. “I don’t see it yet.” I wanted to fall out of read more
I battle with insecurity. This year I have looked into the mirror and I have stared long enough to contemplate the reflection staring back at me. Writing a book has been about that process and I am finding that is convenient to not look at all and instead guard an image where I control what read more
Ten years ago, I took a huge leap of faith by quitting a career in social work to pursue something that seemed too good to be true. I started speaking as my full-time career. I started Obscure Ministries, a non-profit organization that is a ministry devoted to speaking about Jesus Christ through the use of read more
Boggle and Scrabble are classic games. I love words; to formulate them; to use them to describe; to consider the sounds of them in how they flow in a sentence structure. Words are vices for creativity: an individual in marketing coins a phrase, an author is applauded for use of distinctive imagery. I like word read more
