I sat down and typed out my reflections on the lessons I’ve learned this year just as fast as they would come. Here are the the Top 10. If you don’t like em, go learn your own! 1. You don’t really know who your friends are until you’re in trouble. Then they come out of […]
Archives for December 2010
Favorite Posts from 2010
Thanks to all of you who read what I write here. After just over 8.5 years of blogging, your encouragement keeps me going. Based upon the number of readers and/or my personal preference, here are my favorite posts of 2010 (in order of appearance):1. Unacceptable Email Drop-In2. Cursing Church3. Why Do Storyteller’s Embellish?4. The Hardest […]
December 28, 2010 by Leave a Comment
Let’s Go Gigging!
When I was a boy, my family spent many of our Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays in Port Aransas, Texas. We were there for one purpose: to gig flounder. Every night we’d put on our waders and load up our equipment and head to the ship channel where we’d spend most of the night walking around […]
December 15, 2010 by 6 Comments
The Starbridge Novels
When I read fiction, I almost always read “guy fiction.” If spies, explosions, and covert operations aren’t involved, then I have a hard time paying attention. I’m shallow that way. Every now and then, I find an author who keeps my attention without blowing anything up. I love the Harmony Novels, and I’ll read just […]
December 9, 2010 by 2 Comments
The F-Word
In this post, I want to noodle around a bit with an idea and see what comes of it. Over the past few weeks, I’ve had several friends gently, lovingly, but forthrightly challenge my use of the word “failure” in a few of my recent posts. It seems that some have done so because they’re […]
December 7, 2010 by 11 Comments
Telling Stories, Asking Questions, Learning Lessons