Yearbook
When you’re gone, how will you be remembered? Right before summer break the yearbooks came in. A hardcover pictorial of the 2018-19 school year. Students busily flipped pages, pointing, laughing,…
Graduation Letter To My Students
Dearest Students, Sometime early in your freshman year I said to you, “Blink three times and you’ll be seniors getting measured for your graduation robes.” I could tell by the…
Photograph
We know it’s important to make memories. Are we helping make memories for others? Determined not to accumulate any school loans during my seminary program, I served full-time on staff…
Tour Guide
When God pointed me toward seminary back in 1993 I moved from LeMars, Iowa (population 10,000) to Phoenix, Arizona (population way more than 10.000). For being a farm kid, I…
Key Chain
I admit I didn’t pay much attention when he walked in. Hospital room doors should be revolving. The flow of nurses, doctors, therapists and staff never stops. In that moment,…
Grandma Thompson
It’s April 11, 2014. Grandma Thompson would have been 114 today. Practically no one lives that long. She made it to 90, which is a pretty fair go at it.…
30 Minutes At The Lubbock Animal Hospital
To Sadie the Boxer, the parking lot of the Lubbock Animal Hospital is a smorgasbord of scent. She can’t sniff fast enough. It’s her first visit to the clinic. I…
Small Town Cafe
It’s good for a small town guy like me to dine in a place like this. Wood paneled walls from the 70’s. Fiber board ceiling tiles, slightly water stained from…
Movie Memories
“C’mon, girls! Brush your hair, brush your teeth and get your shoes on. We’re leaving.” “Where we going, Daddy?” “Move it, girls. We’re outta here.” “Is it a surprise?” “Not…
Signature Song
From 1999 through 2007 in addition to my day job I worked for the Phoenix Suns Team Shops. As part-time jobs go, it was great fun. Known then as America…