I had promised to suggest resources for building a library for your Bible Literacy Journey - let's get back to that! First, that's a terrible name. I'll work on it! (Past Bible posts are linked at the end.) "And you may find yourself in a beautiful house/With a beautiful wife/And you may ask yourself/ "Well, how did I get here?" - Talking Heads One picture is of my roommate Rhonda, my friend David, and me from my freshman year of college. We are goofing around in front of a p

Good news: I'm writing this while it's pouring rain - so there is an extra layer of Very Literary on top of this. Can you feel it? Bad news: it's been about 18 months since I did a book review, and I'm overwhelmed by the thought of trying to tell you all the good books I've met! In the middle of that time, for a semester, I audited a "reading literature" book discussion group at my old grad school. I - and three others - were up on tv screens on a wall in Dallas, while the r

We live close to train tracks that carry freight cars all day, all night. Frequently - especially on weekends - you will find trainspotters standing around, camp chairs set up, binoculars, old style video recorders in hand, phones at the ready as they wait for the scheduled engine to pass by. I can't relate to this passion, but I can appreciate how this is fun for them. To me, watching someone enjoy a niche interest, or seeing someone with a unique talent points to a Creator

This post was originally published 6 years ago. I stand in the kitchen on a rainy October day eating blueberry coffee cake. My mom has been diagnosed with cancer. Life throws us this new ingredient over the summer. We add cancer to the already-full-bowl of kids and family. I count up - it's 36 doctor visits I've been to with kids, mom and myself in the past three months. I jot notes on slips of paper, struggling to remember my school Latin to understand the words the doctors