Who Are You to [Insert Dream Here]?

This is my fifth post for the Your Turn Challenge. Status of my goals: Marathon: On track. I finished week 2 of the Couch to 5K program today. Two Square Yards of Earth: Behind Schedule. No change since yesterday. 100 Posts: Behind Schedule. This is my seventh post this year, of eight planned by the […]

The Gift of Perspective

This is my fourth post for the Your Turn Challenge. Status of my goals: Marathon: Back on track. I completed yesterday’s run this morning. Two Square Yards of Earth: Behind schedule. No change since yesterday. 100 Posts: Behind schedule. This is my sixth post for the year, of eight planned by the end of this […]

The Soft Strength of Uncertainty

This is my third post for the Your Turn Challenge. Progress toward my goals: A trifecta today! Marathon: Behind Schedule. I failed to run this morning as I had planned to; I’ll make it up tomorrow morning. Two Square Yards of Earth: Behind Schedule. No change since yesterday. 100 Posts: Behind Schedule. This is my […]

Reputation Is Not Character

This is my second post for the Your Turn Challenge. Status toward my goals: Marathon: On track. No change since yesterday. Two Square Yards of Earth: Behind schedule. No change since yesterday. 100 posts: Behind schedule. This is my fourth post for the year, of a planned eight by the end of this week. We […]

Where Is the Dream Today?

This is my first post for the Your Turn Challenge. Every day for the next seven days, I will post here. Progress toward my goals: Marathon: On Track. I started week two of the Couch to 5K program this morning. I’ve managed to suck my son in; he ran with me this morning, and says […]

Heroes of 2014

First, status toward my goals: Marathon: On Track. Completed week one of the Couch to 5K program on Friday. Week two starts tomorrow. Two Square Yards of Earth: Behind schedule. I might still be able to finish the outline by the end of the month, which will put me back on track. 100 Posts: Behind […]

My 2015 Goals – And a Little Kick in the Pants

Seth Godin read my mind. Again. Seth knows how important it is for me to force myself to ship, to put whatever is in my head out into the world where people have a chance to love it or make fun of it or ignore it. He knows it’s the shipping that’s really the point–it’s […]

What If?

What if … … There were no such thing as destiny? … Our place had more to do with our attitude and skills than our circumstances? … The only way to find a soulmate were to choose someone with whom we have a profound connection and dedicate our lives to making that person happy, trusting […]

My Holiday!

I no longer consider myself exclusively Christian. But I love Christmas. I didn’t always. For a big chunk of my life, it was always somebody else’s holiday: before I embraced Christianity, it was too much about Jesus, and after, it was too much about buying and consuming. There was always something to be mad about […]

It’s Not Just the Soldier

I’m on a backpacking trip with a few Boy Scouts as I write this. It’s cheating a little bit to pull out my phone and post this on a Scouting weekend, but it’s cold out, it’s not yet 7:00 in the evening, we’ve all retired to our sleeping bags and I didn’t bring a book. […]