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In a Boat With a Tiger
Last night Rachel and I watched the Oscar winning film, “Life of Pi.” It was a homework assignment given to me by my friend, Kevin, who forbade us from any more coffee get-togethers until I’d seen the...
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Happy Birthday to Mom
Today is my mother’s birthday. I won’t tell you how old she is, but if you take my age and add 20, you’ll have an idea. We celebrated last Saturday by taking her out for lunch at a local restaurant,...
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Where’s the Volume Control?
This isn’t going to be anything meaningful, just a brief observation and perhaps a shout out to all the other parents of small boys out there. Lately, I’ve noticed that my son has exactly two volume...
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Stillborn, Still Here
I couldn’t sleep last night. My neighbor’s to the back apparently were conducting search and rescue missions in their backyard, because a massive floodlight lit up the back of my house, a light so...
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To Those Who Wish To Go Away
It’s a Saturday, so I’m safe writing this. Here in Georgia, the sun is shining and people are busying themselves by the pool. In the midwest, they’re trying to recover from yesterday’s terrible storms....
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In the Passenger’s Seat
Yesterday was a great day for my family. My brother invited us to an Atlanta Braves baseball game as part of my nephew’s birthday celebration (happy 6th birthday, Joey!), and the game started at 1:30....
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Childhood 2.0
Yesterday my children allowed me to do something that I’d dreamed about for years. Simply because they exist, I was allowed to walk through the right field gate of Turner Field, out onto the turf of...
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Do? More.
Don’t believe this. Not for a second. From a very early age, we teach kids to identify themselves by what they can accomplish. When a baby can flip over from back to stomach, we ooh and aah; when she...
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What Would You Call This?
So today I was trapped in the Customer Service lounge of my local Ford dealer while waiting on my car (oil change, no big deal). While I waited, I started reading Michael Hyatt’s book, Platform: Get...
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Being Yourself
I had breakfast with an old friend this morning, and while the subject of our conversation was mostly about our lives and what God has done in each, there was a moment when he said something that’s...
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Beautiful Things
It’s raining here in Georgia. I’m sitting at my kitchen table, sipping on my coffee, reading my devotional, and looking out my big kitchen window. All I can see is overgrown grass, gray sky, and...
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Summarizing Yourself
Getting set up to succeed as a writer isn’t easy. I’m doing a lot of reading, a lot of research, and while I sometimes feel hopeless, I’m slowly learning. One of the things that I learned today was the...
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How I Feel Lately
Well, maybe a little bit of an idea. I know what I want to do, I know I’m good at it, and I know people need the services I can provide. So it’s not like I’m totally adrift. But on the bigger details,...
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Any Advice On Author Website?
I think this weekend, I’m going to jump off a cliff. I’ve been debating whether or not to shift to a premium WordPress account (or even a self-hosted one), and I’m about to fall off the fence onto the...
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Building An Author Website
So I wrote last week about wanting to make some changes over the weekend. I’ve considered launching a personal website for some time now, a place where the blog and my books could be displayed, and...
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Discernment
Yesterday the pastor of the church we’ve been visiting was speaking on the topic of Good Advice. The main point of his sermon was that too often people seek out “yes men” for their decisions – they...
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You Decide: A Quick Poll On Potential New Features
I had another post I was going to run today, but I had to stop writing in the middle of it and kind of lost my mojo. (Surprise!) However, after lunch with a dear friend and mentor of mine, I came away...
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The Five People You Meet On The Internet*
*With apologies to Mitch Albom. One of the inescapable facts of life these days is the internet. You go there to find leads on jobs. You go there for the news. You go there to connect with friends and...
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He’s The President…And Human Too
I haven’t been political in a while. There’s just not much return on it. Every time I write about politics, I get nasty comments and emails, and I’m just too tired to put up with crap like that....
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Anne Lamott on Writing
This… “But how?” my students ask. “How do you actually do it?” “You sit down, I say. You try to sit down at approximately the same time every day. This is how you train your unconscious to kick in for...
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