I scrolled past a video the other day that I can’t even find again. It was a husband and a wife. They had been in some kind of fight. The husband offered an olive branch. The wife took it. There were no theatrics. Just two people who clearly respected each other and clearly loved each … Continue reading Tonight (and Everyday) I’m Grateful for My Wife
The Drift: How Some Relationships Die Quietly
I have watched partnerships I didn’t think would end, end. Not in dramatic blowups. No financial scandal. No moment where an outsider could point and say that’s where it broke. Just a slow erosion of what made the partnership work, until something tested it and it couldn’t hold the weight. The drift is what I … Continue reading The Drift: How Some Relationships Die Quietly
I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
I’m thirty-five days into the third round of a year-long challenge that has me running seven habits every day. Across the year I’ve kept a near-daily exercise practice, published two books with a third in proof, built and grown a daily Bible illustration project that’s reached a real audience, started writing songs again, held a … Continue reading I’m Tired, and That’s Allowed
The Beauty of Routines
Most writing about habits frames them as productivity tools. Build the right habit, do the thing, become the more efficient version of yourself. The vocabulary is discipline, willpower, accountability, consistency. That’s not why I built mine. I built mine to give my brain somewhere to go when it would otherwise reach for food, wine, or … Continue reading The Beauty of Routines
What I Wrote in 2018
In July of 2018 I sat down at a keyboard and wrote a post about communication. I had just come through chemo and surgery to clean out my lymph nodes — my second time with cancer, the first having been in 2004. I was on short-term disability. I was waiting to go back to my … Continue reading What I Wrote in 2018
