In the race of your life: keep your eye on the prize
Winning. Competition. Trophies. Prizes. Those things all held real sway for me as a young athlete. I wanted them. And, many times, I got what I wanted. I was successful, often a winner. Much celebrated and complemented. When I became a Christian I came to see myself on the winner’s podium, and I didn’t necessarily […]
Worship on the Workout Floor
I’m seated on the hamstring curl machine at the gym. I get all the adjustments made for leg length and seat height and resistance. I place both feet in position to squeeze the padded bar that pulls the lever toward me. And I do. Evenly. Right and left executing the same force. I think perhaps […]
Brain Injury and Mental Health, A Time to Heal
What a national conversation we’re having, around an issue very close to home: illness of the mental variety. We’re afraid of it, because we can’t see it, can’t touch it, can’t manipulate it to see where it hurts like we can for the other illnesses we’re used to. We are a nation of fixers. If […]
Mental illness and brain injury: not just sick in the head
What a national conversation we’re now having. Around an issue very close to home. Illness of the mental variety. We’re afraid of it, because we can’t see it, can’t touch it, can’t manipulate it to see where it hurts – like the other illnesses we’re used to. We are a nation of fixers. If something […]
Perhaps I am bi-polar by design?
Who am I? Am I a health and fitness professional who likes to write? Or am I a writer who likes to be healthy and fit? One day I’m one; the next day I am the other. Can’t I just “arrive” already? Today’s answer is no. Every time I land in one camp I am […]
Disorder Distracts
I have my moments. When I can operate in the middle of the fray, regardless of the chaos happening around me, just keep piling and not even slow down. But these moments are few. Generally, I need a clean desk. I don’t think this is a compulsive tendency. I think it’s more of a visual […]
Prayers through the beveled glass
I get up every weekday morning with my high schooler who has to catch the bus at a ridiculouosly early hour for a kid who just turned 16. Make no mistake, there is not deep conversation, nor are there fond expressions of love and care. No. It’s more of a presence thing. A keep-you-company-while-you-try-to-force-down-some-breakfast thing. But the […]
What is so compelling about Twilight?
I have a confession to make. Just to buck the whole rush-around-during-Advent business I ducked into a movie theater last week. Took myself to the last Twilight movie, Breaking Dawn, part 2. No academy award winning acting there, but I love a great story. I felt a bit guilty taking a couple hours off when […]
Writing it up wraps it up
You make the hypothesis, design the experiment to test the hypothesis, do the experiment, make observations, record them, evaluate your results and draw conclusions. Oh yes. Then you write it up. And if you’re DaVinci, father of experimental design, you write it on any scrap of paper handy, forward or backward, left-handed. Well, I am […]
Seeing, Only Deeper
I’m just interested in stuff. In people. In things. In how things work. In how people work. In what I see and hear. What I read and find out. I guess you could call me naturally inquisitive. And what I find out, I write down. I take note (s). This is funny because I don’t see […]