a new favorite book

This morning, I finished Ordering Your Private World by Gordon MacDonald. I picked it up a week or two ago from a thrift store for the perfect price of $2 and it has been the best kick in the pants. I immediately shifted three things in my life. The interesting thing is that I shifted […]

seven photos from the week

You’re also going to see books, and my pets, and any snakes that wander past our steps.

Seeking the light and playful

Today I had lunch with a woman that I haven’t seen in a couple of years. It’s totally my fault. I started working at a local church and the time I had free to meet with her and study Greek fell away. But today we met to talk about writing and the weird things that […]

Photos of the week

Taking pictures of my regular life is a practice that I continue to develop. I love candids of my family, quick snaps of food that we cook together now that the boys are old enough to help, markers of our friends and adventures. I do my best to keep photos of people’s faces off the […]

Two collected works by Ursula K. Le Guin

I recently finished The Language of the Night and The Found and the Lost: The Collected Novellas of Ursula K. Le Guin. The Language of the Night is an assembly of UKLG’s speeches and essays about fantasy, science fiction, and writing.1 This version of the essays was updated with notes that Le Guin made on […]

The kitchen

The kitchen is the center of embodied life. Here I fix my coffee in a quiet morning before I tackle translating some Greek. I water my plants and watch my children play in the backyard. Boys sit at the bar and create, or learn to chop vegetables and make cookies. I talk to close friends […]

The Meaning of Singleness book not-review

I’d like to start writing a paragraph or two about each book as I finish reading it. First up-The Meaning of Singleness by Danielle Treweek. Last night, I finally finished The Meaning of Singleness by Danielle Treweek. She is an Australian and an Anglican who wrote her Ph.D dissertation on singleness. That dissertation became this […]