special needs…

He asks me out to lunch every day I’m at work. It’s the first things out of his smiling mouth at 7:00am in the morning. I’ll pull into the church parking lot and he’ll yell his invitation to me while he’s completing his janitorial...

100 word wednesday: taste and see…

Shut up!!! I got this video from my friend Denny who remembered when I shared this at the Songs of Solomon bible study back in 2008. It’s the manicotti story!!! He put a little sumthang’ sumthang’ together for us. 🙂 For Dana, Brianna, and Cindy who...
manicotti, chopsticks, and a recipe…

manicotti, chopsticks, and a recipe…

Tomatoes. Garlic. Parsley. Olive oil. Mozzerella. Basil. Kosher salt. Garlic. It had been several years since my dysfunctional break up with Satan ended, but the conversation around the dinner table in Florence, Italy haunted me: once I learned how to cook, I’d learn...
cultivate…

cultivate…

I climbed out of my blue Kia I rented from Enterprise, grabbed my laptop, and checked in at registration. First trip to Chicago, first communication conference, first time I desperately needed help traversing the world wide web for more than email or Internet surfing....

friday vlog: grace…

It’s Friday morning and the sky in Portland is grey and cloudy. But it’s beautiful. Layers and layers of clouds dropping heavy drops of cleansing water on the city to wash the streets and quench the trees and saturate us who walk from corner to corner....

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