You Have a Safety Net. Take the Risk.
Is This Safe? Here was another lighthouse. This one was on the Canadian side of our border. We’d been going into several lighthouses in Maine, all interesting, all unique. Why not…
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What Are You Asking? Am I asking the wrong question? She wants to see my Kindle. I turn it on and click to the children’s book I downloaded from the…
Read moreWhen Transformation Seems Slow, Don’t Eat the Change
He Ate the Change “Mommy, my tummy hurts. Real bad.” Here’s why. He ate change. Literally. My four-year-old friend took a dare this week from a five-year-old. He put coins…
Read moreWhere’s the Book Inside You?
We ran into each other again at Manna House a few Wednesdays ago. It’s where we usually see each other these days. Cowboy and I first met in his homeless…
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Have Enough Favorites? Brian brought me Vietnamese spring rolls Thursday night. He had made spring rolls a couple weeks earlier and brought them to our English as a Second Language…
Read moreOnly God, Only Good
What Is Synecdoche? Driving through Birmingham, I saw this billboard for a church. It said, “God is ONLY good.” But when something bad happens, we can think God is mean.…
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