The Intersection of Faith and Culture
I’m the darling of my dentist’s office. Why, you ask? Because I floss every single day. Sometimes — check this out — I floss twice. Before you write me off as a goody-two-shoes, let me add that I don’t get oil changes as often as I should, and I typically […]
Did my grandparents chase their dreams? No, they just went to work. — Jeff Goins Everyone has a dream. That’s what Billy Joel says anyway, and he’s been around for a while. Some of us scribble it down on bar napkins in fits of inspiration. Some of us stew over it […]
Continuing the trend of comparing my field notes with those of others, I thought I’d get in touch with Max and Lauren Dubinsky. If you don’t know who they are, well, you must be new. Each half of the Dubinsky partnership has their mission aimed at helping their sex (as in […]
Success is one of the dirtiest temptations of the devil. — Madeleine L’Engle In his book “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years,” the venerable Donald Miller quotes another author in saying that writers love having written. I can’t allow myself to be content with that. Writers aren’t the only […]
…it is only a darkness, it is not an end, or the end. (Henry James) I’m used to expecting depression in the winter, especially if I’m somewhere north, where it gets dark early and the cold leaches the serotonin from my bones. It’s strange to find this existential despair even in a […]
A friend recently congratulated me on my “absolute liberty,” as he put it. “You should try it,” I said glibly. “It’s scary, but it’s fun.” He said that he was working on it. Then I felt like a jerk, because really, who am I to act as if I’m the […]