It is about 1:15 am. I am standing outside of the bus I just disembarked. I blink several times to get my eyes to focus correctly. My legs also struggle to focus correctly. It has been four hours since they have been used. The nautious scent of cheap cigarettes wafts my direction from a couple […]
WEEKENDS – A poem I wrote before leaving my bus route in 2001
Oh, yes, I love this route I ride each week; No other place on earth I wish to seek; The miles, the time, (the money), the faces; Michigan City’s one of my favorite places. I love, in summer, the hot July morn – Starting the engine and beeping the horn. I, too, […]
MAULUCCI MADE
Last night I talked to my brother Jeremy for a couple of hours. It was a rare opportunity as we live in time zones that are 8 hours different. He introduced me to a Facebook page for the Maulucci family from Accadia, Italy. Accadia is a small town in the region of Puglia, Italy. Jeremy […]
Book Review 10: QUIET TALKS ON PRAYER
[symple_skillbar title=”Order the hard copy” percentage=”64″ color=”#132670″ show_percent=”true”] This book is a gem that was recommended to me by another missionary. The language makes it a slower read, but still definitely worth it. I bought it on Kindle for a dollar or two. Here is an excerpt: Prayer opens a whole planet to a man’s […]
Don’t Walk Away!
Short rough draft trailer from chapter 10 of my book FALLEN FROM GRACE: Dispelling the Disconnects Between First and Second Generation Christianity Days had turned into weeks. Weeks had turned into months, and now the months years. Isaac had been picking up the slack along with his father since Jacob had departed. They subsisted by […]
Trip of a Lifetime #6
(Spoiler alert: The contents of this post will be our prayer letter arriving in America in several weeks) After Katie and I were married on Friday, August 13, 1999, we spent our honeymoon in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It was beautiful there. Katie was beautiful. I was beautiful. Everything was beautiful. Trip […]
JUST AN AFTERNOON
Our time with our older children at home is quickly fleeting. I admit that sometimes that fact is buried under the busyness of having little children, preparing sermons, surviving the annoyances of eastern europe. Those things do not change that fact though. Friday afternoon was just another Friday afternoon. I had a hundred things, it […]
Book Review 9: 100 BATTLES
[symple_skillbar title=”I’d rather be watching PBS” percentage=”28″ color=”#132670″ show_percent=”true”] For some reason I found this 250 page book quite laborious to read. There were a couple battles that I found interesting, but I trudged through most of this book uninterested. [symple_accordion] [symple_accordion_section title=”TITLE“] 100 BATTLES: DECISIVE CONFLICTS THAT HAVE SHAPED THE WORLD[/symple_accordion_section] [symple_accordion_section title=”AUTHOR“] MARTIN […]
MAMBA OUT: The Last Assassin
I was never a Kobe Bryant fan. I hate the Cowboys. I hate the Dodgers. I hate the Redwings. I would hate the Yankees except for the fact that as one born in Buffalo, my other two choices were the Mets and the Blue Jays. The Mets. The Blue Jays. Yeah, so we are Yankees […]
Just a Word from a Wanderer
I am sitting in the hotel lobby in Istanbul. In fifteen minutes I will be taking a tram to the metro and then the metro to the airport. I think my itinerary is something like Istanbul – Dubai – Johannesburg – Blantyre. My final destination is Malawi, Africa to be with my good friend Neal […]