They’re Coming

They’re Coming

As Susan and I walked home from church last Wednesday, after tutoring children in a program called “Read and Feed,” I noticed a large brown bug crawling slowly across the neighborhood road.  “I’ll bet that’s a cicada,” I said. Sure enough, we spotted another large...
Riding Out of West to Well-Deserved Accolades

Riding Out of West to Well-Deserved Accolades

The tourist-oriented town of West Yellowstone, Montana, didn’t know what it was getting when a former prison chaplain from Arkansas showed up in the summer of 1998. But it soon found out. The small but popular gateway to Yellowstone National Park swells to some 20,000...
Sunset on the Mountain: Count Your Blessings

Sunset on the Mountain: Count Your Blessings

Good Faith Media is hosting a writer’s retreat this week at Amicalola Falls State Park in the mountains of northern Georgia. Missy and I arrived a day early to prepare for the meeting and make sure our incoming attendees feel welcome. We left Oklahoma City at...
The Stubborn Witness of a Spider

The Stubborn Witness of a Spider

I bumped into one of my sisters this morning. To be more precise, I actually crashed right into her. Did she experience our collision as a disorienting disruption, dizzyingly turning in the wind as her world came undone? Or was it just one more tear she would have to...