Today brought the first Winter storm of the season to the Philly area. Overnight it began as snow, but by the time sunrise came the temperature had warmed significantly and the precipitation had turned to rain 1. The end result of this change over in our neighborhood is an inch or so of slush on…
Category: Thoughts
The Coming Celebration
What follows is an edited version of my sermon on James 5:7-11, with some brief thoughts on the first six verses of this chapter. While I’ll be concentrating on verses 7-11 in this message, for us to do so we’ll first need to give a bit of context. The fifth chapter of James, up to…
Why I’m not part of “The Resistance”
Since the election a significant segment of my social circles has become increasingly concerned, and not without merit. The United States of America has elected someone who is shaping a government meant to enrich both his own pockets and those of his social strata. What’s worse, a significant percentage of the people who will be…
Writing Update
As yesterday’s post explained why I write, I thought today I’d take some time to share some updates on what I write. Welcome To The Valleys Since I complete the first/web-draft of Welcome to the Valleys life has exploded. I simply have not had time to sit down with the story and clean it up…
Why I Write
This week on of my regular readers, whose blog you should check out, asked me an interesting question. What got you into writing, anyway? Specifically, she wanted to know because writing fiction is not something typically looked upon fondly by others in “my profession 1.” This got me thinking, and led me to begin with…
Reading
The past few weeks I’ve begun to realize one of my personal disciplines had slipped. I wasn’t reading. This happens from time to time, as life and work conspire to distract me from doing real self-care, and this past Fall was one such season. I’d finished some history books in September and failed to pick…
