Just for fun

I’ve been trying to get hold of this picture for almost a month now. It was cold, and thrilling, and amazing to be in Times Square at night. Aren’t my dad and bro cute?

When God fights back

Have you ever noticed how often Jesus is in combative mode throughout the Gospels? This has struck me as I’ve read through Matthew this week. He is often hotly defending his message, sprinting into conversations in swift idea attack (that usually ended in a checkmate in his favor, especially regarding the pharisees), pricked to fervent [...]

Ode to a shelf of homeopathic remedies

Grocery store corners and neat row
Lines and price-point signs
For cabbage, cakes, and bursting
Grapes in hurried hands of people
In a speed of modern harvest for
Their nightly feast, the slap-bang
Grab of sustenance before they
Sleep, I pitter past, list half done,
Check one item more,
I bend down, snatch my prize
Stand up and
Stop.
One jar of red like cardinal’s wings
One sapphire [...]

Hometown

“Well, look who’s having a good hair day,” said a thin, business-looking but beaming security guard as I ducked through the metal detector.
“You have a wonderful day” he called over his shoulder, “and break some hearts while you’re at it.”
I grinned for an hour.
I love people like that.
Meeting them is like running into someone who [...]

In a Normal (Illinois) state of mind

I think this is the closest to normal I’m ever going to be.
I’m jotting a hello to you between sessions at a conference where my mom is speaking and I am trying to finish emails in between bookfair openings.
We spent the last couple of days before this in Asheville. I think its my favorite city [...]

Go. Read. Now.

There’s nothing like finishing an engrossing and highly intelligent book on culture from the third story of an old apartment in the arts and culture capital of the states. I read this book and then walked down Park Ave. through a river flow of people, past a parade of museums, and the words of this [...]

My morning view. From my fifth floor room. On W. 75th St.

From Times Square…

A quick hello from the maze and brilliance and hum of life that is this famous New York City. I am here for a few days for a small arts and faith conference by an intuitive movement called International Arts Movement. Our conferences rooms have been small classrooms on the 13th and 14th floors of [...]