When I was in my late teens my father gifted me with a clear tube filled with blue goo. As you can guess by that sentence my mother usually gave the gifts, but that made this tube of goo special and ...
Deep Thoughts
Mmmmm smell that fresh stank
There is something fresh about a new year. It smells like that first stank of something that has just been busted out of its packaging and is pregnant with possibility. There are dreams to be had and ...
GROW
The dictionary tells us that to grow is “to spring up and develop into maturity”. I’m becoming intimately acquainted with this process recently, because in our superb wisdom we went ahead and got a ...
Hold My Earrings
Yesterday I had a counseling appointment. As I was growing up my mom had a really great way of making sure that normal stuff was not stigmatized and when I asked her if I was weird or had something ...
Half Caf, No Whip, With a Shot of Let’s Gooooo!
I’m preparing a talk while at a coffee shop, one of the cool ones with people busting out of the seams doing all the important things while drinking fancy beverages and eating yummy breakfast ...
My Favorite Color is Green
I have been hiding so long that it's almost too bright out here for my eyes to adjust. As a teacher and encourager it is a downright hostile environment to say anything at all these days. Seriously, ...
500 Pieces
Over the past two weeks I have sat down and begun about eight different posts. I've tried writing on the fly, in a restaurant, coffee shop, and my home. I’ve written outside with the chirping and ...
The past few years have brought much knowledge about relationships, particularly what keeps us in unhealthy ones and what prevents us from walking towards the ones that bring life. This journey has ...
Gifted
Back in elementary school I was put in a reading group. This group was built up as something cool where you got to check out extra books from the library and then come back and read your favorite part ...
Nailed It
This morning I woke up a bit before the masses and hobbled into my office to greet the day with a little time in the Bible in an attempt to remember what this Easter week really entailed. I'm trying ...
