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The Corporate Nature of Prayer
Of late, I’ve been thinking about the corporate nature of prayer. It’s a formal phrase and is misleading because corporate implies big business in these days of mega-corporations; despite the...
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Pete Carroll and 5 Writing Lessons
Pete Carroll as a Coach of writers is not well known. For good reason because football coaches don’t teach others how to write, they teach others how to play football. And yet Carroll’s coaching...
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Remember Big Hairy Audacious Goals?
Remember the acronym BHAG? Made famous a couple of decades ago by management and leadership gurus like Tom Peters, BHAG stands for big, hairy, audacious goals. I was reminded of my love hate...
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Fighting Adam- A 21st Century Look
In the preface to his new book, The Road to Character, author David Brooks states that he wrote this book in order ‘to save his soul.’ Now that is a phrase that one seldom reads from the pen of a New...
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Late Spring in High Desert
Anyone living in the west is well acquainted with drought, wildfires and extreme battles over water. This past winter was dry, snow was scarce therefore worsening the fears about drought but several...
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Authority of Heaven
In the suggested prayers of the faithful for today, Ascension Sunday, we are asked to pray that the ‘authority of heaven will inform and guide those who govern on earth.’ It’s a concept we love to...
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Tomorrowland and Critics
Tomorrowland the movie opened yesterday. You know those days when the ‘to do’ list is lengthy but somehow you cannot focus? Cannot seem to beat the distractions or stop the futile jumping from one...
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The Lure of Giving Up
I realized that I never got to the fundamental reason that I so liked the film Tomorrowland in a recent post. And decided that it had to do with giving up, or rather the lure of giving up. Due to some...
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Our Three Person God
Today is the Solemnity for the Holy Trinity in the Christian Liturgy. And I realize that this concept of our Three Person God foils me. Close to nineteen years ago, the man who would become my...
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Life Isn’t Fair-Even For Lebron
Watching the unfair calls on Lebron James during the second game of the final NBA playoffs helped when I received a scathing review of my first novel. A little anyway. We’ve been told that life isn’t...
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The Value of Critics
In a recent post, I talked about the cost of a scathing review I received from an anonymous reviewer. I did not mention that this was a review I solicited as in paid for. The cost I spoke about...
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Christ Asleep
The first time I actually thought about being in a fishing boat in a raging storm with Christ asleep on a cushion, was during a meditation given on that Gospel passage shortly after I converted to...
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Making A Difference
To leave our rural valley in northern Nevada, we drive for about thirty minutes. Upon turning north on the freeway, after about fifteen minutes or so, we pass a bulletin board on the left asking about...
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Max-Military War Dog
Like most writers, I do deep research about unfamiliar subjects. Actually, even familiar ones. The reason is simple. We want to get into the heads and hearts of our characters. And the sole way to do...
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Three Surprising Elements of Creativity
Creativity is something most of us cannot get enough of, right? Because each day we are placed in situations requiring us to be inventive, imaginative, innovative. Whether a stay- at- home- mom,...
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How Is Your Heart Doing?
Many Muslim cultures have an intriguing way of greeting, ” Hello, how are you?” The English translation to the Persian greeting is “How is your heart doing at this very moment? At this very breath?”...
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Ordinary Time
In the Christian Liturgy, today is the sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Ron Rolheiser writes that the phrase “ordinary time” is used for a dual purpose. First, to highlight the liturgical seasons...
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Thomas More and King Henry
“I die the king’s good servant, and God’s first.”–Thomas More “Blessed Thomas Moore is more important at this moment than at any moment since his death, even perhaps the great moment of his dying;...
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Thinking About Thinking
As a recovering bibliophile, I made a promise to myself to read each of the books purchased in the last decade or two and am now making my way through After Virtue by Alasdair MacIntyre. Despite the...
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A Sparrow Died Today
A sparrow died today. I was out very early this morning like I am usually to feed the birds, the fish and to water the flowers. A tiny sparrow sat on the concrete walkway. As I came down the steps...
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