My archive of previously published articles is not exhaustive, and for that reason, I hesitate to post them all too quickly, should a serious writing drought strike sometime in the future, as it inevitably will. But this essay is timely, and so I’m posting it now. This past weekend marked the one-year anniversary of my…

Here is another post-birthday blog entry, as I never got around to logging on yesterday, the actual anniversary of my birth. Just shy of my eighth birthday, I was the new kid in school (for the first, but definitely not the last, time). I met a girl in my third grade class named Lisa, and…

Yesterday was my birthday. To commemorate the occasion, my friend Jenn treated me to dinner at my favorite Thai restaurant. (Thanks, Jenn!) The bill arrived with the requisite fortune cookies, and mine read as follows: The aim is useless without the way. Deep. I think. (Seriously, my first response upon reading this was, “Huh?”) Meanwhile,…

It would be easy for us to simply fill up a summer with meaningless activity, but I believe that the summers are meant for healing, growing, and preparing for what is ahead. May the Spirit be in all that we do. This how my friend Chloe, who works for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, closed a recent…

I was having coffee with an old high school friend last week, when it hit me. Again. I am getting older. And everything old is new again. J. and I reconnected last year, shortly before our 20th high school reunion. Until that weekend, it had been probably 18 years since we last saw or heard…

In the spring of my junior year of college, I took a fiction-writing class. This was possibly one of the most exhilarating and terrifying experiences of my undergraduate career. There were probably about 20 of us in this class—it was a very in-demand course which, each term that it was offered, filled to capacity very…

A few days ago, Over the Rhine provided me the inspiration to finally come up with a blog title I liked, inspired by a quote from one of Linford’s writings posted on their website. What compelled me to surf over to their site in the first place was an article published recently on the Christianity…

This blogging experiment never seems to get completely off the ground for me, as evidenced by the date (almost four months past) of my one and only post. But I’ve been on a blog-reading binge lately, and am therefore inspired to add my own musings to the cybervoid. So here I am. And I think…