Thoughts on Living the Life Creative
A slight variation from the usual weekly post of thanks. It feels tougher this week to focus on being thankful. There are the usual suspects, I'm married to the great love of my life, I have a child of whom I am perfectly proud, my health is pretty good. The bills get paid, I have... Continue Reading →
How can it be 26 years ago this week? I remember those days in a blur, yet like they were just last week. My baby girl turned 26 earlier this week. I don't think I tell her often enough how thankful I am that she's in my life. Without her I never would have entered... Continue Reading →
This is the day. THE day for what this post is all about. It's Thanksgiving Day. The day we are supposed to be truly thankful for all the good things in our lives. But it feels like we're just going through the motions. Thankful for a couple days off from work. Thankful for more food... Continue Reading →
I'm not sure everyone who knows me would describe me this way. Emotional. In fact, deeply emotional. I joke that it's my parents warring in my personality. My mother was very emotional while my father was very controlled. The truth is that my father needed that control for his own emotional state while my mother... Continue Reading →
Over the last couple weeks I've had the chance to hang out with or watch over the milestones of the children of friends. Not little children mind you but the grown up children of friends. These are people that I have known, for the most part, their entire lives. I've interacted with them as children,... Continue Reading →
There are things you don't know you value until they are gone from your life. For me, that has been any sense of regularity, any connection with routine. Now that's kind of funny because I've made a reputation for myself over the years as the person who can make the adjustment, can get caught on... Continue Reading →
Today is the anniversary of the death of one those people who have had a special effect, a deep impact on my spiritual life - Mike Yaconelli. If you're in youth ministry you probably know his name. Co-founder of Youth Specialties, author of "Messy Spirituality" and "Dangerous Wonder". Books that I can not read at... Continue Reading →
Another stupid, long, stress filled week. Which is why this post is late. But today felt like I'd turned a corner, gotten some things behind me and headed in a positive direction. Then one thing went a little bit awry. When I came home several more things decided to go pear shaped. Sigh. There are... Continue Reading →
There are days when life just gets hard. I've had days when it was hard because of BIG, SERIOUS problems and other times when it's hard because of an overwhelming burden of little, stupid problems. Recently it's been mostly the second category. Have you ever walked into a swarm of midges or lake flies? Tiny... Continue Reading →
I love baseball. I have since I was a kid. My favorite team has always been the Pittsburgh Pirates. Last week I got to spend time with my favorite human being, my lady wife, watching my favorite team in my favorite sport. And they won. And the young man who graduated from the same high... Continue Reading →
Stories Are My Life 