She was a little too brazen for my liking. “If you’re going to go the special-needs route, you will need a sense of humor,” she said. “This process is awkward, […]

See the young father coming home from work. He is bone-tired, especially between the ears. If this was the late 1950s, he would kiss his wife on the way through […]

I am not a poet. And I know it. However, I am occasionally surprised when poetic verse somehow leaks out of my pen and onto paper. I want to share […]

I love this section from the preface to Brennan Manning’s The Ragamuffin Gospel: [The gospel is] for the bedraggled, beat-up and burnt-out. It is for the sorely burdened who are […]

A couple of weekends ago I spoke at a conference called Hutchmoot.  Hutchmoot is a physical manifestation of the online community known as The Rabbit Room.  Around 200 folks from […]