Writer's Block

Something to think about today…and I hope this goes viral.   If you use a service like DoorDash, UberEats, Shipt, Instacart, etc., remember ...

Six and a half years ago, in August 2016, I received some of the most devastating personal news of my life: I had breast cancer. It was a su...

ALL Lives Matter. I am not a racist. The pigmentation in my skin does not make me one. I am a human, as are you and all the o...

My brain is ruminating...and so I must ramble a bit... ... I have always enjoyed exploring the world. I grew up moving around to di...

My brain is ruminating.  The dictionary says to ruminate is “to go over in the mind repeatedly and often casually or slowly.“  The ...

I love words.  I love the way they fall together to create sentences, forming stories or poems or songs. I love to hear the jingle of...

There's a thing to understand about life...and that thing is that life is not always understandable. Curve balls can be -- and ofte...

**Soapbox WARNING: I rarely feel the need to tackle a difficult subject on this blog. I like to steer clear of controversial things...but ...

Editor's note: I've been going through the blog post drafts I have on here, and this is from 2009. Sadly, not much has changed as f...

Editor's note: This was written back in October 2014. What if Michael Brown had been a white kid on drugs going after a black cop? Whe...

I found this in my drafts and thought I'd publish it. It was written right after the boy committed suicide in January. ===============...

I know I have a bit of catching up to do...so many special days have passed between last August and now. But in an effort to get back to b...

In today's world, this is especially poignant: "I need you, Jesus, to come to my rescue...where else can I go? There's no othe...

We've been singing this in recent weeks, learning it since it's new to our worship group. I especially love the words in the chorus....

This is what's been on my dishwasher lately. Ethan put it there, spelling each word all by himself. Awesome, huh? Moreover, G...

The thing about freedom of speech is that it has to go both ways. You cannot tell one side to agree...or shut-up. Sort of goes contrary to t...

So I started on this subject a few weeks ago in this  post . Friendship has always lent itself to some pretty deep pondering...about o...

There's a famous expression that goes something like this: You can't "have one's cake and eat it, too."  Accordi...

Nothing is impossible; the word itself says “I’m possible”!  -  Audrey Hepburn There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is ...

Today's sermon was called "Bearing Bad News" and continued the series "Daniel: Faith When Life's Confusing," lea...