Though it seems impossible to believe at this point, apparently I still have a friend or two who has not heard about The Time I Met Dick Van Dyke. The following is a faithful and complete record of my momentous …
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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 …
Continue readingSomewhere Nearby
(This story was an experiment for me in writing second person POV.) *** The first time you saw the man… well, you don’t actually remember the first time. Or the second time. Who knows how long he was there before …
Continue readingSinking Islands
Long before John Donne wisely observed that “no man is an island”, God Himself weighed in, pointing out in the book of Genesis that “it is not good for man to be alone.” It only takes a cursory look around …
Continue readingCat Plans
Found this schedule taped to the wall next to our cats’ feeding dishes. 8:00am – Sit in the middle of the pile of rumpled blankets & sheets while humans try to make the bed. Jump down thirty seconds after they …
Continue readingPen, Paper, People
This is going to sound like bragging, and maybe it is: We’ve been under stay-at-home orders for two and a half weeks, and I haven’t been bored for one single second. Even in my pre-pandemic life, at any given moment …
Continue readingLove 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 …
Continue readingReturn 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 …
Continue readingThe 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 …
Continue readingStill Learning
I love to learn new things. I always have. I was that slightly annoying kid in school whose hand was perpetually up, whether to ask a question or to answer one. I loved picking out my classes every semester in …
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