New Business Venture

When I was in college I dabbled a bit in selling Avon mainly because I enjoyed the products Avon offers. After months of spending more than I sold I decided to call it quits. However, I am now a much more mature, disciplined individual. Right? After a bit of thought I’ve signed up to sell [...]

Season of Firsts

Me and Don

I have heard it said that there is a first time for everything. There have been a lot of firsts around here lately! While it is not really a first, a couple of weeks ago I the chance to drive to Fort Worth to see my favorite author, Donald Miller. You may remember my previous [...]

Oops!

With the transition to a new blog, I have a lot to learn. WordPress is much more powerful, but also more complicated than Blogger. I’ll figure it out eventually, just taking it one step at a time. One step I recently took was learning that my site had comments blocked unless you were registered with [...]

A Different Kind of Paycheck to Paycheck Living

America seems to be king of living paycheck to paycheck. According to a 2007 article on CareerBuilder.com, 41% of workers in the US claim to live paycheck to paycheck. The article also says that these individuals do not save for rainy day, because they do not believe that they make enough to do it. If [...]

Review of “Find Your Strongest Life” by Marcus Buckingham

I love strengths. I love anything based on positive psychology and helping people learn to be their best selves. So when I had the chance to review Marcus Buckingham’s newest book in this area titled Find Your Strongest Life I jumped on it.

Christianity– Crutch for the weak?

Michael Kelly recently posted an entry responding to the accusation that Christianity is a crutch for the week. This is a claim I’ve heard many make. I have always struggled in answering it. I think Kelley makes a great argument and it stirs my heart. I encourage you to check it out. His post still [...]

How Many of Me?

My friend Tiffani posted this link on her blog today where you can find out information about your name. More specifically, how many people are in the US with your exact name. Here are the results! HowManyOfMe.com There are people with my name in the U.S.A. Howmany have your name? Apparently there are 7171 people [...]

“Fearless” By Max Lucado

It goes without saying that we have all found ourselves paralyzed by fear at one time or another. Whether it was based on real life circumstance or paranoia that a fear might come, we can all sympathize with the grip fear has on our lives. I just finished reading Max Lucado’s newest book, “Fearless”, which [...]

“Right from the start”

Remember back when spent a week as a Camp Director for Line Camp here at Baylor? There was a writer for the Baylor Magazine who shadowed us that week to learn what Line Camp was about. I have been waiting anxiously to see the result. Tonight, it appeared on my Facebook News Feed: “Right From [...]

Happy Birthday, Brother

Today, August 31st is my brother’s birthday– he would be 23 this year. I’ve been thinking a lot about this day for the past couple of weeks. I have wondered what it is going to be like to not be able to call and harass my brother all in the name of wishing him well. [...]