I write from the passenger seat of a rental car as a good friend and I cruise along a sunny Tennessee highway between Nashville and Memphis. We’re on day two of a quick road trip transporting some stuff of hers from West Virginia to Houston. We’ll spend a day or two there with her sister […]
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Greenville 2021: A Winter in the Midwest
Hello all. I write from a Holiday Inn Express breakfast dining room in Indiana. I’m here with the Greenville University women’s basketball team, for whom I am currently assistant coaching. We will play our second of two games against DePauw University this afternoon before driving home. I’m currently enjoying one of my favorite things – […]
Continue readingGreenville 2020: A Funny Turn of Events
I write from 16A on a Frontier flight from Nashville to Denver this bright December afternoon. I’m on my way (via a long layover to stay with a good friend) back to Chicago at the end of the week – we’re a couple weeks out from Christmas. Heralds forecasting snow storms prophesied from the screens in […]
Continue readingPost-Europe 2020: Smoke and Doors and Baby Steps
I write from the airspace between LAX and Chicago’s O’Hare airport. I’m flying back to Illinois after spending six weeks in Southern California with one of my closest friends and her family. These past few weeks alone have been filled with plenty to write home about. When we weren’t spending our time working, plenty of […]
Continue readingEurope 2020: Plot Twist and Dublin During a Pandemic
It’s amazing how disorienting life can be. I write from the seating area of a cafe in Dublin International, enjoying the welcome presence of two other customers in an otherwise vacant corridor. I spent last night here at the airport – it’s a virtual deadzone and was one of the more bizarre quiets I’ve ever […]
Continue readingBelfast 2020: The “Being” Bucket List (Not to be deterred by Coronavirus)
I write from one of my favourite coffee shops in the city centre of Belfast, fleetingly conscious that I’ve used British spelling for two words in my opening sentence. How we find ourselves assimilated in interesting places in this life. It’s nice to see other humans and places open like normal in the […]
Continue readingBelfast 2020: Edinburgh, Start Ups and Significant Moments
(Written Friday, 18 January 2020) I write from Gate 24 in Edinburgh International Airport awaiting a flight back to Belfast. Today was quite a day. I woke up at 5:30am in an Edinburgh flat to leave for basketball practice with my former University of Edinburgh team, then afterwards headed straight from […]
Continue readingEurope 2020: Back to Belfast and Be-ing over Do-ing
On a bus driving from Newcastle, Northern Ireland back to Belfast after a short day trip. I arrived back in Northern Ireland yesterday after a two-week visit to the United States to do Christmas with family. The trip was restful, invigorating, and encouraging in a lot of ways. After tomorrow, I’ll be back to […]
Continue readingLife Update and Shelf Life on Questions for God
I write from a plane above the Pyrenees mountains. Bound for Belfast, I’m returning from a weekend basketball trip to Molina, Spain with a crew of eleven 16-17-year-old girls and one fearless mom who braved the journey and who was instrumental to its success. In the same instant, I’m exhausted and quite content. We all […]
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Europe 2019: Barcelona, Helsinki, and “Walking by Faith…”?
Written 10/25 I write from an unfamiliarly nice airline seat aboard a Finnair flight from Barcelona, Spain to Helsinki, Finland. It’s odd not to be on a bottom-of-the-barrel budget flight when you’re scrunched into as little space as humanely required by the powers that be and contemplating getting some coffee or tea or, wonder […]
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