THRU THICK AND THIN
Getting ready for our return to in-person Sunday service this week feels something like being spun around for a game of Pin the Tail on the Donkey. The whole year has been dizzying, so you’d think we’d be getting more…
THAT MEANS A LOT
I’m sure you’ve heard the old groaner about the guy who goes to a funeral and asks the widow, “Do you mind if I say a word?” She tells him, “Please do,” so he steps up in front of the…
I BEG YOUR PARDON
When I walk, I like to listen to podcasts, so I’ve been checking out a bunch of different shows, in different genres, on a variety of topics. It seems like every celebrity has a podcast these days, mostly interview-format, where…
BY ANY OTHER NAME
Shakespeare’s Juliet muses, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” She’s not wrong — if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, it’s probably technically a…
BORN TO BE WILD
Travis and I just returned from a three-night birthday trip to Silver City and the Gila Wilderness. It was awesome. But that little vacation combined with an amped-up production schedule of our community film project, SQUATCH (see below), means that…
DREAM WORLD
I have been dedicated to studying Spanish this year. I still freeze in any conversation that comes close to normal speed, but I’m getting pretty good at reading comprehension, and my vocabulary has expanded tremendously. It’s been one of my…
TO AND FRO
A couple of months ago, I shared a bit of inspiration from this book I’ve been enjoying, Humankind: A Hopeful History, by Rutger Bregman. I was only on Chapter One at that point, and I predicted that I’d want to…
GETTIN’ EGGY WITH IT
It can be a little tricky to balance expectations around the big Christian holidays. It’s not that our community as a whole gets terribly hung up around it, but I know it’s a thing for some of us, and so…
FLOWER POWER
I know I write a lot about my Dad. I hope it’s not too much. It’s just that Robert LaFollette Groves was my hero, truly an extraordinary human being. And I’m not sure that I expressed that to him nearly…