I thought about doing a "19 things from '19" post, but 19 things is a lot of things to talk about in a forum in which those things might be seen as "recommendations" as opposed to "things that pressed one or more of my very specific buttons and that I would be horrified to learn … Continue reading 10 Good Things
With Us
I've been writing the word "Emmanuel" over and over, trying to get it absolutely perfect. (I struggle with uppercase cursive Es.) That's the accumulation of a couple of afternoons, but it wasn't just those couple of afternoons—it was years. There have been vaguely serial-killer-y "Emmanuel" Post-Its and paper scraps all over the place in my … Continue reading With Us
On Not Missing the Magic
Yesterday was my dad's birthday. I'm extremely fond of my dad; I think he's a great person who married another great person, and I'm a little biased, but I think they both did (/are doing) a pretty great job being parents. Yesterday was a Monday and Kyle and I took my parents out for a … Continue reading On Not Missing the Magic
The Best You Can Do Is Try to Be Someone Worthy of Loving
Happy Halloween! Here is a photo of some of my friends and I group-costume-ing last weekend for our church's fall festival. We're dressed as characters from Gravity Falls, a truly excellent two-season cartoon that I would insist you watch immediately if it hadn't just been yanked off of Hulu to presumably resurface on Disney+ later. (But … Continue reading The Best You Can Do Is Try to Be Someone Worthy of Loving
Love Is the Movement
This is a post about evolving faith and hope and the other side of hope, but mostly it's just a post about how much I love Switchfoot. I was a Youth Group Kid in the mid-2000s--the Golden Age of contemporary Christian music (CCM). I went to WinterJams, I used CCM lyrics for my AIM away … Continue reading Love Is the Movement




