Over the last few months I’ve been contemplating acquiring a domain name for Painfully Hopeful. This morning I finally pulled the trigger and purchased a domain which, I feel, captures the ethos of what I post here. So, welcome to painfullyhopeful.me! Come, gaze at the irony.
Author: Wes Allen
Wes got back in to Role Playing Games during the pandemic and it’s blown up into a wonderful mid-life crisis. He runs the DM Tales YouTube channel and website, GMs two campaigns, and plays online in another with some old friends. His “day job” is a Baptist Pastor in Philadelphia’s Jersey suburbs.
A special message
Whatever holiday you celebrate, have a good one.
Pleasantly Disrupted
I remember watching the initial iPad announcement and thinking, “Well, it’s kinda cool, but underwhelming.” It didn’t have a camera, and it really looked like nothing more than a big iPod Touch. As I already had an iPhone, I saw no need for “another device.” Then my neighbor got one to be his “take along…
Privileged
Yesterday, at ABCNJ’s staff party, we all went around a circle sharing some of our thoughts on our experiences the previous year. Folks joked that I didn’t use a projector to share my thoughts, so I turned them into comic strip characters. I don’t enjoy making people feeling overwhelmed as they wrestle with a new…
Journey theme
I love the metaphor of a “spiritual journey.” We move from one place – be it physical, spiritual, or a combination of the two – and wind up somewhere else entirely. This sense of journey is present in a good many pastors (and other Christians) who come into a church and quickly discover that they…
The right tools
I love this iconic image of my wife and son doing some homework on his iPad. Looking at it got me thinking about how we can use the massive amount of information found on Internet to communicate, to research some noble endeavor, shop, and to find out that, “Beam me up Scotty” was never actually…
