Jesse and I, we went to Lexington, Kentucky for a few days this summer. We found and drank some good bourbon. We found a coffee shop with a sign that read, “Muggles Tolerated.” We found an Irish store the size of a leprechaun and I looked at Fishermen sweaters and we bought a bag of soda bread mix with a… View Post

I’m interested in staying in this story about Eve and Mary and Jesus and Judas and the rest of them. I’m willing to wrestle and doubt and consider grace. I believe in this insane story about a Being that is bursting with love all there is to do is create and create and create and set it all loose and… View Post

-quote from Revan Schendler I learned about a course at a local college called, ‘The Study of Love” on the same day I came down with Covid. “Came down,” is the perfect phrase for how it happened because one minute I was fine – maybe I had a slight tickle in my throat – and the next thing I knew… View Post

“Forgive me,” Scott Hoezee writes in a prayer, “for sometimes thinking that inspiration comes from only the great stories.” Forgive me, for ignoring the swell of gratitude I feel standing in front of the strawberries at the grocery store—because they are on sale, and red and plump, and their seeds pop like accessories; their green leaves the perfect up-do for… View Post

Read about the making of this poem, and the importance of paying attention when that one word finds you – even if, and especially if, you don’t want to be found. Story here.