This week is the final countdown to the PreteenMinistry conference in Rocklin, CA and I’m lucky and blessed enough to be able to go with my church. I’ve been volunteering with preteen for the better part of three or so years and I love it. I also hate it. I know, odd thing to say, but let me explain before you dismiss me and my [...]
Why I love and hate Preteenministry
This week is the final countdown to the PreteenMinistry conference in Rocklin, CA and I’m lucky and blessed enough to be able to go with my church. I’ve been volunteering with preteen for the better part of three or so years and I love it. I also hate it. I know, odd thing to say, but let me explain before you dismiss me and my [...]
Thirty and…
I’m thirty. Commence the gnashing of teeth.
Just kidding. Maybe.
Growing up is something we’re always doing. It never stops. When I make 60 years old, I’m sure I’ll be saying the same thing on whatever blogging platform we’ve invented in the next thirty years. Truth be told, I’m not that upset about tu [...]
Waking Ned Devine
The title of this post refers to a movie title. Everyone has that movie. The one that never quite leaves their heart after all those years. The feelings that the scenes gave, the way the lines were delivered and the path each character took in the arc on everyone’s way to the end of the tale when the credits rolled. It’s somet [...]
Cry Havoc!
Every so often I have an experience that shakes me up, spins me around and sets me back down again. I take my first steps and I realize a few things are different. Changed. New. And it’s a wonderful moment.
Over the weekend I took a retreat with a few close friends and mentors in ministry. We took some time away from the world in a place [...]
Still Insane in 2012
And, I’m insane and on video. So there’s that.
The First Day
It’s day one of my Year of Living Dangerously. And I do feel dangerous.
Today I sped five miles over the speed limit while cackling with glee as if I was an evil genius about to take over the world and bomb Saskatchewan off the face of the map. I mean, who’d miss that province anyway? It’s not like Canada is a real country or anything.
(mor [...]
The Year of Living Dangerously
2012 is just hours away. A new year. A new chance.
I was thinking about this today and came to the realization that tomorrow doesn’t mean much in the world outside of what we’ve created with calenders, dates, hours and minutes. The sun will rise and set as it always has for years and years. The moon will show up and have cycl [...]
The Greatest Generation
December 7th, 1941. A date which will live in infamy.
It is a humbling thing to look back 70 years ago and imagine the events that changed the United States of America and the World. I recently watched Ken Burn’s “The War” and “World War II in HD” and found myself questioning my gumption and intestinal fortitud [...]
Shake it up
It’s been a helluva year.
I can remember back to January having all these ideas about what I was going to do, the things I was going to put on a list and start crossing up to mark my amazing progress. I remember having visions of losing weight, getting healthy, making it to six months in a relationship, getting promoted at work, findin [...]
Darkness Falling – NaNoWriMO 20...
It’s here. The yearly event in which everyone from all walks of life attempt to do something nobody expects them to do any other time of the year. National Novel Writing Month. It’s grown year by year and I don’t expect this event will ever slow down. Everyone dreams of writing the next great American novel and in some w [...]
