Faith Doesn’t Work without the Works
On the 13th of January, my book was released. It’s titled, Fit2Finish: Keeping Your Soccer Players in the Game. No, I didn’t self publish. There is actually a publisher out there who believed in me and believed in my message enough to work with me to get this into print. Thank you, Morgan James, Publishing, for […]
This Gift is Not Mine, But Yours
There’s such a difference between “You are gifted!” and “You’ve been given a gift!” One might confuse the two, thinking either one will do. But no, one must go. Step away; the other may stay. You are gifted! Shining star, you’re certain to go far. A sure anointing, don’t be disappointing. The burden so heavy, not the resources to […]
Why Do a Book Signing?
Riddle me this. Why is a book signed by the author worth more than the book, unsigned? It isn’t, to you, but it is to them. You know that your signature isn’t worth any more than the ink you use to sign it. But, your message and your signature designate this book as meant especially […]
I don’t create, I rearrange
I am not creative. I do not create something from nothing. That was done once, only once. I rearrange. Been rearranging since the beginning of me. Today, I give thanks for the gift of creativity. The desire to look at a thing and all that surrounds it and try out the combinations. What goes here? […]
Open Letter to Santa
Dear Santa That’s as far as I got on my letter. I don’t remember the last time I wrote a letter to Santa. But this year I have pledged to do one thing each day that a kid would do. Of course a kid would write a letter to Santa, so here it sits on […]
Bottom of the Ninth
Dear Faithful KC Readers, Some of you will heave a huge sigh of relief to hear that I am planning on scaling back the posts to this blog. When I started, they were nearly daily. A year in, they became a 3 times per week practice. God and I have been talking and we agree […]
Life story, a poem
Art exposes. Love discloses. Hate hides. Fear folds. Power peeks, then peers, then prevails. Humility holds. Rest redeems. Quiet waits. Art explodes.
Beware the parenthetical
“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” belts the Great Oz. And oh how our attention goes there. Immediately, we peer behind and around or we want to, first chance we get, when no one is looking. Because when someone says, don’t look, that signals it is something they don’t want us to […]
Post-it note promptings
Sometimes I feel like God speaks to me in sticky notes. At times when there is so much to say, there are so many ideas to consider, or there’s no time to write it all down, I scribble the gist of it on sticky notes. On these occasions, my paper or my journal page or […]
Forward vs Foreword
Got a spelling lesson today. I’d never realized that the front matter of a book, the introductory pitch, written by some famous or inspirational person to get you to read what’s coming, is not a “forward” but a “foreword.” It’s not a ready-set-go. It’s a word that goes before. A preparation for what’s coming. It […]