I’m behind on writing. I haven’t been home much in the last couple days except to sleep and work. Continue reading
Church #5
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Thai massage
There’s a place in Saratoga Village called Shivaga and we see their sign for Thai massage every time we’re down there. Every time Mark has seen it, he has longingly said he’d like to get a massage. He used to get a massage once a month a long time ago, and he has back pain from the military that flares up every now and then, so he’s Continue reading
Church #4
In 2007 when I was living and volunteering in Mexico, my boss took me to see “The Pursuit of Happyness” with Will Smith. The story was taken from the real life story of Chris Gardner, a man down on his luck and living on the streets of San Francisco with his young son while he trained to be a stock broker. Later that year, when I was Continue reading
Church #3
Mark had to get up extra early for work this morning, so I got up with him. At the last minute I decided to change the order of the churches I still want to visit, and it’s a good thing I did. This morning I drove nearly 50 miles to attend a Mennonite church in San Francisco. As it turns out, if I’d waited till next week, I would have gotten to that address and they wouldn’t have been there! They’re meeting in a park next week. Continue reading
Shout out!
I want to give a shout out to my younger sister, Lauryn, and my 14-year-old nephew, Nate, who just returned home today from a mission trip to Kenya. I hope to get one of them to write a guest blog about their trip. Continue reading
Church #2
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This morning I had decided not to even try to take a GPS with me. I had carefully written down the instructions off Mapquest for how to get to Santa Cruz Friends Meeting. Fortunately I left home over an hour … Continue reading
Getting around
The question has already been asked as to whether I found the Friends church I was looking for yesterday. As a matter of fact, I did. I was a little worried for a while because Mark’s GPS froze on me, but it finally kicked in in time to direct me there. Continue reading
Good books for middle school
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”Ralph Waldo Emerson“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time(or the tools) to write.” Stephen King
If you are inclined to write for 6th-8th graders, you’ll want to read some of the best of what’s out there now. Here are my top 12 picks:
Words of wisdom from Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman gave his words of wisdom to the University of the Arts class of 2012. The words are relevant to anyone doing creative work, and so I share them here with you. (Just click on Neil’s name above.) The vimeo is 19:55 minutes long, but well worth the Continue reading
Don’t buy too many green bananas
Yesterday I finished up with the book I’ve been editing for Delores Warner. She’s written a memoir about the 18 months she spent taking care of her husband, Vern, after he was diagnosed with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease). It’s her first book, but she’s doing everything right. She has shown it to some of the people who walked through that journey with her Continue reading