A Road Without Turns
The long stretch of road climbs banks and hills and mountains and peaks and drops down down down valleys and bends. This road coils...
Juggling Jesus or The Unreasonableness of the Christian Life
Matches, cigarette lighters, a magnifying glass, and a flint striker – these were the secret arsenal of my childhood. When my parents...
The Killing River
The Killing River lulls you to pebbled banks, interrogates your beliefs, confronts you with God, and gives you a peace of surrendering as...
The Forgetting Cloud
Stuff that’s good for nothing is the hardest stuff to get rid of. An old shoebox filled with baseball cards, my first-grade progress...
The Demonized Virtue of Being Messy
I should’ve know something was wrong a couple of days ago when I started to clean my office. Being an addict means monitoring my behavior...
Not Really
We’ve never seen the sun. Not really. It comes up every day, lights the world, shows us the ground we walk on, and casts our shadow. But...
The Mediating Shell
Ankle deep ocean water bubbles over with frothy, white suds – like diamonds massaging the meeting place of land and sea. A little further...
From The Fire
Why would you go to an art museum? Because you’re beau monde, sophisticated by cultural appetites – a refined intellectual with an index...
Fourth of July
Flags will wave. Children will clap. People will sing. Bands will play. Parades will march. And red rockets will soar, splashing the sky...
The Communion of Blueberries and Saints
The Azalea Festival, the Shrimp Festival, Spot, Strawberry, Watermelon, Lantern, The Ocean City Jazz Festival, The North Carolina...