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Happy Halloween! Or Happy Harvest. Or happy day before the Christmas season unofficially begins. I have friends that decorate their tree… tonight! Sigh…pass the Reese’s.   But before the orange and black turns to red and green, it is only appropriate to reflect on our fear. Well, I guess that should be plural. Spiders, ya know. And high places. And final exams. Do you still have that nightmare? You forgot to study. Your #2 pencil is broken. And you’re wearing pajamas. Sigh…pa

I see dead things . . .   Of course I do. Tis the season, after all. Boney hands and bodies reaching up through the ground. Skeletons as tall as a house and as small as a mouse. The best I’ve seen, by the way, is a yard in Cannon Beach where a large skeleton has his hands raised, controlling an army of small skeletons climbing the fence and ready to take over the otherwise sleepy beach town. And in a nearby neighborhood in my  town, the Pirates of Pinehurst have already taken

Hello Friends!   I hope your fall is off to a “best-of-all-seasons” start. Ah, the red leaves, orange pumpkins, and brown liquids (PSL’s & Cider)! Why is it we celebrate death this month again? I know, but I think I feel the most alive during these months.   Speaking of alive, I heard a definition of life recently that was quite thought provoking. If you are alive then you “have the ability to change.” That sounds like the line from a sermon, but it turns out it’s scientifica

If you read last week’s blog, you’ll know I’m a small-town boy from Prineville (and Monmouth, and Dallas, and …). So the transition to...

I greet you today from Oregon’s wine country, which I’ll introduce at length in book two (A Taste of the Kingdom). At the moment, I’m...

WELCOME TO PARADISE!   I greet you today from my happy place, which is truly paradise. I’m looking out the window at a pine and juniper...