My Year of Less, Chapter One
My Year of Less, for a Life of More I’m 37 today. Technically in just under two hours I’ll be 37 (6:09pm), but the 14th of May is my day. I so love my birthday. I feel honored to have been…
Where Does My Help Come From?
Where Does My Help Come From? Facebook, CNN, Fox News, Instagram, your friend group, a well-meaning auntie, and the New York Times. Twitter, too, but I always forget about Twitter since I’m not on it. Either way, the headlines have…
Lent 2020
I have some quiet time all alone in the house this morning and am doing some final mental preparations for Lent, which begins tomorrow (Ash Wednesday). For those who are unaware, Lent is the 40-day period (excluding Sundays) of fasting…
Middle School Chronicles, Episode 1
It’s clear that writing about middle school will be a regular thing as our family navigates with one child who is right now in their second year of middle school, with two more joining him next year. Alas, let’s just…
Suddenly
“It was about this time that King Herod arrested some who belonged to the church, intending to persecute them. 2 He had James, the brother of John, put to death with the sword. 3 When he saw that this met with approval among the Jews, he…
Dismantling Idols
Dismantling Idols The iPhone has a feature on it called Screen Time, which allows users to obtain daily and weekly reports on their phone usage (and other apple screens if one adjusts the settings). Details emerge such as: time spent…
The Upside Down
The Upside Down. For viewers of the Netflix Series “Stranger Things”, this reference is easily digested as the pseudo-reality filled with murderous beings and all of our “hiding under the bed” fears rolled into one. This place exists alongside, underneath,…
The End is Near.
We’re nearing the end of Lent, and my social media sabbatical as a Lenten fast is nearing its end as well. Before talking about my social media future, I want to revisit the last couple of weeks in terms of both…
Lent, so far.
Greetings, populants of the Internet! I’m alive, and well. The end. See you again soon! Just kidding, I’m not nearly succinct enough to end it there after what has been a THREE-WEEK fast from social media thus far! I half-heartedly…
2018: Heal
Off and on through the course of the last couple of years, I’ve taken on the task of choosing a word on which to focus for the coming year. I can’t remember them all, or even very many of them,…