Painfully Hopeful

Fiction Tuesday – Insert Coin

Today’s blog continues my long-neglected satirical fantasy, In The Land of the Penny Gnomes “Hey. Hey, get up.” Will MacGil felt himself being shaken in his bed. He cracked his eyes open enough to see how far the Sun had risen. After all, he had a History test in the morning and was looking to…

A Sudden Insight

For the better part of a year I’ve been trying to wrap my mind around the support Donald Trump is getting from a certain segment of the Evangelical Christian community 1. He is a man who treats the Image of God with utter contempt, especially when the image-bearer is a woman. He is a man…

Arsty Keg

Yesterday we took some of our friends to Pennsbury Manor, where a program called “Plants to Pints” was being held. We’d been wanting to bring our friends out to the manor for some time, and felt the program was as good an excuse as any to do so. This historical lesson began, as the name…

Colors of Fall

On Friday I presided over the funeral, and was asked to photograph some of the floral arrangements by the family. Unfortunately, the full display had been taken to the gravesite by the time I had access to my camera. But a single piece, a bamboo cross, was left behind at the request of the woman’s…

Balloon

On my photo walk last Sunday I decided to walk along the bank of the Delaware River below the retaining wall. The tide was out very low, so there was a wide path to stroll along as my friend and I walked, and we go to seem some familiar sights from a completely new angle….

Writing Update

I wanted to give a short update on my fiction writing. This past week I released the first section of In the Land of the Penny Gnomes. I’ve been enjoying going through what I’d written several years ago and preparing it for the blog. Penny Gnomes was one of the first projects I attempted in…