And So It Begins September 22, 2025 — 0623 — 58° The air had that fresh rain and honest chill to it this morning. Not winter’s teeth, just the cool that tells you the season has finally turned the corner. Out across the fields the crops have started to bronze, the grass is letting go … Read more
Work, Marriage, and Showing Up When You’re Spent September 4, 2025 — Night After a long day behind the wheel and on the jobsite, I come home drained. Feet sore, brain foggy, patience gone. The easy thing would be to collapse in a chair and disappear into myself. But marriage doesn’t run on autopilot. It … Read more
End of Watch: Nothing Matters If You Don’t Get Home September 4, 2025 — Evening Some things in life don’t matter. The argument you lost at work. The job that chewed you up. The hours you swore were wasted. What matters is making it home at the end of the day. Walking through that door. … Read more
Wearing All the Hats I wear all the hats. Manager, owner, dishwasher, cook, and teacher. It’s true in my business, and it’s true in my family life. I’m the one who keeps the numbers straight, shoulders the risks, and handles the unglamorous day-to-day work that most people never see. At the same time, I’m also … Read more
September 10, 2025 — 5:42 p.m. Of course, at this point in the day my Facebook feed is filled with posts about Charlie Kirk’s murder. I’ve even written a piece about it. The one thing I know with absolute, 100% certainty is this: Charlie Kirk would not want our freedom of speech — our First … Read more
Preaching Without a Pulpit I don’t stand behind a pulpit. I don’t wear a robe. I don’t belong to a brick-and-mortar congregation anymore. But I still preach. And I believe that’s exactly how Christ intended it. Christ never asked His followers to build temples with stained glass and million-dollar budgets. He preached on hillsides, in … Read more
Free Speech, Violence, and the Line We Just Crossed September 10, 2025 — 14:55 Charlie Kirk, political commentator and activist. I just got a message from one of my instructors saying Charlie Kirk was shot today in Utah. I had to ask who he was, because I don’t keep a scoreboard of famous names. But … Read more
Why I Write — Reflections on History, Family, and the Pressure Relief Valve By qball45 • September 5, 2025 Today I’ve been pouring out words again. Thank God for my audio recorder and transcriber—without them, none of this would get out of my head and onto a page. Writing is so much easier now than … Read more
Narrator’s Voice Since I’ve discovered the best technique for me to convey my mental words into written form, I’ve also discovered something unexpected: my narrator’s voice. It hit me during something as simple as reading a bedtime story to my granddaughter. Instead of fumbling and stumbling over the words, I’ve found myself slipping into that … Read more
Always Show Up September 3, 2025 Always show up. That’s where it all begins. For me, the struggle has always been real — not finding words, but getting them on paper. My mother loves to tell how, once I learned to speak, I never shut my mouth. The words were always there. The problem was … Read more