Category Friends in … Places

Hello old friends. I finally did it; I finally launched a new blog. It is called, “Searching for the North Star” and would not be, but for the love, time, and kindness of the folks who I met along the…

  Yesterday, a long-prayed prayer came true in my adopted home church as Love Manhattan rolled out. It was so good. Better than Josh Garrels-jamming-in-my-Hobbit-House good.Better than chocolate-and-peanut-butter good.Better than even the WildCats-winning good. At the beginning of the Sunday conversation, a…

  Silence. All I can hear is my in and out breathing and the hum of the air conditioner. I am on my face again – in this child's pose and on an old familiar blue rug – seeking God…

wrecked.org     Today, my friend is going to whoop it up with her family in preparation for baby #2. There will soon be a party, well-loved people, presents, and – most likely – popped balloons filling this joyful home.…

    One thing I've learned in this season is that sorrow visits every house. Each family. Strangers on a train. And there is so little to be said to help ease the pain of loss. Often, all we can really do is…

  Lingua wrecked is sort of a "lingua franca" of those who wrestle in life; a connecting language that links your experience to my experience and to the life of that guy on the curb by the liquor store. If lingua franca is a "bridge…

also on wrecked.org This Mom's Day morning rose cool and bright with ideas in my head for multiple blogs. But I could not get the website to work. So I left with friends for the country home of a mom…

Moving to a new place can be scary under the best of circumstances. When circumstances become less than ideal, an unfamiliar place – a city – becomes lonely canyons of dangers unknown and desert. "Call out to Jesus" my little…

This week, I had a chance to meet up with a few Sunset Zoo pals who now live in Houston. She is a veterinarian and he is a soccer-loving ZooKeeper. He also launched "cheesy movie nights" for Zoo staff a few years…