Literally, and in the blog sense. Today, I’m visiting the Adventures in Missions offices in Gainesville, Georgia to finally meet the amazing marketing team that I serve with, and I’m also virtually visiting while my friend Jim Woods of UnknownJim.com anticipates the arrival of his new baby boy! My post for Jim is called One Dreamer’s Map to the Promised Land: Once upon a time, Christine lived a nice normal busy life. Great career, family, two cars and a house. Living the dream. Except the dream was a nightmare. Not the “chased by monsters” kind, but the “constant dread of […]

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Haters are everywhere. I hear about them from bloggers I admire and I fear the day a hater shows up in my comments. I hear about them from my kids and it leaps to a whole new level. My heart breaks. I want to punch them in the face.   Haters are the black cloud in a clear blue sky. They will bitch and whine about anything. Everything. “I wanted a yellow Ferrari, not a red one. You suck.” They hide behind clever pseudonyms and fake facebook accounts; they strike and slither away into deep, dark holes. They are no […]

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Does anyone remember the JCPenney Catalog?  In The Days Before The Internet?   When I was a kid, I invested hours circling items that I wanted. The catalog was as big as a phone book and showed a picture of every thing that had ever been made. If it existed, it was available in that catalog. And I circled it. My family went to church, and I knew Christmas was about Jesus’ birthday.  But it was also about the stuff.  Sneaking down to get my stocking before anyone else was up.  Finding millions of gifts piled under the tree.  Peeking at […]

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Every once in a while, I look in the mirror. I look into the eyes of the woman looking back into mine, and I wonder who she is and what makes her tick? What gets her riled up? (Yeah, I’m a little weird, I know. Just humor me, ok?)   What I mean is that every once in a while, I’m prompted to take stock of how I’m living. How well I’m using the gifts that I’ve been given. How well I’m making the world a better place. How well I’m doing with the opportunities that cross my path. And […]

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Today, I’d like to introduce you to Tim Gallen. Tim is a Fiction Friday author-in-arms, and has graciously offered to share his space over at The Daily Gallen with me today.  Click on over and check out my short story about Christmas Eve for a guy that thinks he has it all figured out… Bad enough he had to go along with all of this to keep his mother quiet. Shopping. Spending money he didn’t have on gifts his family didn’t need to celebrate a birthday for a person who wasn’t what people thought and had been dead for two […]

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