Today
Tires on wet streets rip through puddles. Gray skies reflect against grayer pavement, and she walks to school umbrella in hand.
The Pearl
Somewhere under layers of chaos, Shrouded by Poseidon’s depths, And preserved not on principle, But under the chill of circumstance. To...
Kansas
Cattle bellow in time with the metal squawk of the windmill. And a breeze stirs the Kansas dust, sprinkling me, then whispering through...
Flash Fiction: This is...
I gazed into the table’s woodgrain finish where patterns danced and jiggled as he talked. The smile in his voice provided a strange sense...
Freedom.
I consider myself lucky. I have designed my career, and it serves me, much better than the other way around. In the beginning, I fell...
God's Playground
Life is so much more than God’s classroom. I don’t know about you, but "classroom" conjures up images of Sister Thaddeus whopping my...
Losing Big, Winning Big
At one time, our bodies—with innate intelligence developed over millennia—had to plan for famine. This is no longer the case; we live in...
You Must Be Present to Win
“So, Chris says, `Why don’t we go to John’s place and…`” DING “…Hold on. I have to check this.” I fiddle with my phone. “Where was I?”...
Tune In and Rise Up
Our culture relies on motivation far more than inspiration. Every day millions of us wake and suck it up to face a day’s worth of...
Master Life as Art
Years ago, I realized that while I was writing slogans, vision statements, and mission statements for companies all over the world, I...