I need to acknowledge what's going on this week.   There is something lurking in my heart and mind that I have been trying to ignore.  This past week, however, it forced its way into the discussion.  I had a completely unproductive week as an unemployed person looking for a new job.  Time to name... Continue Reading →

This is where the real work begins. Updated the resume.  Had an offer for a free resume review.  Did that.  Got a bunch of, IMO, idiotic recommendations and a couple good ones. What qualifies as an "idiotic" recommendation in my opinion?  Turning my resume into a hype machine.  It stopped just short of creating a POW!!!... Continue Reading →

Time to get down to it.   I got my first, full-time, adult job when I was 22 years old.  So I've been working for 36 years.  This is my fourth time on the unemployment line.  Once upon a time that would have been an awful track record.  Today, not so much. Still wasn't what... Continue Reading →

Sigh.   The official announcement has been made, so I can talk about it finally. As of a week ago, I am no longer the Director of Youth Formation at the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer. Lots of reasons behind the decision, some in my control, some not.  In the end, I think we were... Continue Reading →

Today is the day. The moving company arrives this morning. We move out tomorrow. The furniture arrives at the new place on Saturday. I begin my new job/ministry on Sunday. People have been asking me how I feel.  My answer has been "Mostly excited with a side order of terrified".  Today the side order has... Continue Reading →

Sorry I'm running late.  But that's pretty much the story of my life right now. There are a bazillion details (no, really.  A bazillion, I counted them) that are demanding my attention.  We've been going round and round trying to figure out how we going to get moved.  Finding the moving company turned out to... Continue Reading →

Now comes the hard part. Not the packing.  Not the finding a new place to live.  Not the deciding what is coming and what we're letting go. It's the saying good bye part. It's the "The last time I'll..." part. I had a feeling last summer that I wouldn't be back to our summer camps.... Continue Reading →

Stunning. This was supposed to be a longer process.  There was another job that I had agreed to do a face to face interview with this past weekend.  Then we would weigh the issues and make a decision.  The problem was that the longer my lady wife and I talked the more we realized we... Continue Reading →

Well, that was an amazing experience. We spent last weekend visiting with a congregation in southern Virginia.  They did a great job of highlighting their region, their church and the job.  It was a truly eye-opening, exhilarating experience. So decision is coming very soon.  A decision that would represent the single largest change in our... Continue Reading →

One of the the things that happen when you're thinking about a new job that requires a move is you start looking at all your "stuff". Specifically, you look at it and think "Do I REALLY want to pack all this crap and move it?" So I've been caught up in sorting, evaluating and deciding.... Continue Reading →