General

  • Getting Personal

    Yesterday was a cave day.  It had been almost four weeks since I had done any writing, and I was looking forward to getting back into it again.  I don’t think I stuck my nose out of the door until after dark. I began the day working on a chapter that was towards the end

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  • It has now been a month since I returned from England, and God has been busy. For all intents and purposes, I had finished the first draft of the book.  But I wasn’t feeling very exuberant about it.  In fact, I was feeling pretty discouraged.  It felt like it lacked something to hang it on. 

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  • Change of Plans

    I am home again in California, sitting at my desk with little stacks of “to-do” piles all around me.  I returned from England on Saturday evening and am still catching up.  And it’s not just trivia, either.  My spirit and soul have a thing or two going on as well. The first part of the trip

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  • Notes from Africa

    This morning I heard the lions roar from the deck of the lodge.  Two males were on the go, looking for a place sleep away the day and making their presence known in the process. Now I sit on a hilltop overlooking the plains, the sun coming up on the left while I look out over the

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  • Past and Future

    “If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find we have lost the future.”   – Winston Churchill I knew there was something I liked about him!  A great statesman and historian like Winston Churchill understood the tie between the past and the future.  He studied the patterns of human behavior over time

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