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Burnout (Part II)
The best way to Burnout is not to follow any map, but to spin in tight circles at your regular job as fast as you can. Every job requires spinning—usually clockwise—though it’s often called something else, like a “Quality Initiative” or “Five Nines of Certainty.” Start spinning immediately.
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Burnout (Part I)
If you were wondering why I hadn’t written for six months, it’s because I wintered in Burnout. If you’ve ever stopped there, you understand. How I ended up walking aimlessly across an open, dusty prairie, with paper in one hand and a stylus in the other, I can only speculate.
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Embers of Burnout, Flames from Earth
Join us unencumbered across the arm of space and the reach of the ages. Let us consider together our hurts, our hopes, and our dreams, despite the distance, and encourage each other to sustain the embers of life.
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A bit of author journey and a smidge of aging humor
I’m traveling today with my son Ben to the American Christian Fiction Writers’ National Convention in New Orleans. My hat’s in the ring there for a First Fifteen Pages contest for unpublished authors.
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The Pros and Cons of Lifting Weights
Are you wondering about the pros and cons of lifting weights? Let’s start with the cons. If you begin lifting weights, you will have new expenses, starting with food. My wife, Lori, and I had five teenagers at one time. One of them was a powerlifter who ate like three men. Every week, Lori bought the food for the family. Each time, she filled multiple carts at the grocery store.…
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The Creation
What is the earliest memory of your childhood? Was it something terrible – a wound that hurt you then, and aches even now – a trauma that influenced your decisions from that day forward? Was there a cataclysm, an awakening event so powerful that it flooded your mind, knocked you off your feet, and washed you downstream, aware for the first time of the life-threatening dangers all about you beyond…
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