Category Archives: Spiritual Whoa, I need to get it together. Looks like I haven’t posted in over a year, which is crazy since puhlenty has been happening! How many wood-turned bowls have I made since my last blog? (Lots—and thank goodness they’re looking better and better!) At this moment, no news competes with the pandemic affecting the world. […]  I try to slow down often to listen to my gut. You know, just be… and hear what needs to be heard. It’s simpler, mind you, to do Life every other way—especially with a cell phone that fits snugly in our grip and is so connected to relentless information, drama and distraction. Heck I don’t really […]  One of the best things about road trips is DISCOVERY! There is so much new and unknown to explore. If I was ever afraid of going where I know so little, I’m not anymore, because I’ve experienced time and again that sweet sense of achievement and satisfaction after racing headfirst toward my fears and finding […]  Ok so I’ve gotta admit… as Jim and I headed from Moab to the Salt Lake City airport with our buddy Scott, after a tremendous week of kayaking down the Green River through some of Utah’s most beautiful canyons, my inner voice was aggressively second guessing… well, ME. “What are you doingggg??” it pestered. As […]  The fearless float begins! I don’t think it’s anything mystical, but it’s not procrastination, either. Sometimes I experience something so… perfect… that I just can’t write about it right away. It was that way after I hiked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru with Jim and Corey for my 50th birthday. The words […]  Time flies, doesn’t it? We’re in volunteer-recruiting season in our middle-school student ministry. Soon, a host of brand-spankin-new 6th-grade students will arrive – some trembling, some celebrating, all clueless about what’s about to hit them – in our programming or life. But, as they spill into the room, I won’t see them through the lens […] 
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