The scene is vivid in my memory. I’m 5 years old, riding in a light blue 1973 GMC pickup while Mom is driving. We’re towing a stock trailer loaded with cows.
“You watch that way and see if there’s any cars coming,” she tells me.
The gravel road we’re traveling on meets the highway at the bottom [...]
Archive for April, 2008
Margin Call: My heros have always been cowgirls
Posted in Margin Call on April 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
And it’s off!
Posted in Ministry on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We just submitted our proposal for “To Seek and Save” to a potential publisher.
Tonight, I was fixing the last little things in Chapter 2. I’ve been messing with it for several weeks, insisting on tweaking a word or two here or there. I was reading the lines that are so familiar, I’ve got them memorized.
I [...]
Margin Call: I blame the farmers
Posted in Margin Call on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This column has generated more comments than anything I have ever written for the paper. I thought it would be obvious it was satire, but I was mistaken. I’ve heard from plenty of people who have told me I know nothing about what it’s like to be a farmer. You can follow the online discussion here. [...]
Margin Call: Nobody loves a corporation
Posted in Margin Call on April 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Nobody loves corporations.We may respect and admire them. We can work for them. We may feel a certain loyalty. But nobody loves corporations.
Experiences like this explain why: I purchased a wireless router from an office supply store. I didn’t necessarily need to be able to receive the internet in every room in the house, but [...]
Jesus at the gas station
Posted in Uncategorized on April 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
It was a gas station I used to avoid. Then on a mission trip to Tennessee, we met a man who feels called to work with poor people. That’s what he called them – poor people. People struggling under the weary burden of poverty who would just appreciate a little help now and then. His attitude, [...]
