Turning the Page

I’ve spent the last few years in full time holding-down-the-fort mode while Paul and his partners worked to launch their AI security company. In January, with that story speeding toward its exciting, if still unknown, conclusion, we had to turn …

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Love in a Time of COVID-19

Global pandemic. The words conjure mental images of overworked doctors, hospital floors packed with the gravely ill, infrastructure shutdown, and fearful people huddling together in their tiny germboxes, flanked all around by useless medicines and dwindling food supplies. All overlaid …

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Return to Nicaragua

It was several years ago now that I timorously signed up to join a group from my church that was traveling to Nicaragua on a short term mission trip. Ostensibly, our purpose was to build sustainable water filters in people’s …

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The Stories We Tell Ourselves

I’ve been thinking lately about my tendency to mythologize my life. Do all writers do this? Or is it just a human thing, a natural response to our innate storytelling instinct? That’s more likely. Whatever the reason for it, the …

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Ready, Set, Write!

🎵 It’s the most wonderful time of the year… 🎶 No, not Christmas—NaNoWriMo! Come November 1st, writers all over the world will bend to their keyboards in an attempt to conjure 50,000 words out of thin air before midnight on …

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