
What is the Story you Tell Yourself?
I’m still not sure why we didn’t get killed or end up on life support, but I do know that it all started with the story the young girl in the red SUV was telling herself. Recently, I was pulling our camper with my wife riding shotgun on a stretch of Kansas road called...

A Writers Task: Giving People Language for Their Feelings
Under a shade tree to escape the Midwestern heat at the Des Moines Farmer’s Market, I watched with fascination as passerby’s sang along with performing musicians even though they never stopped to watch them. The singers called themselves the trio-minus-one and were...

The Reason I Write: To Narrate My Own Story
“No one can ever take away from you the power to interpret your own circumstances.” – Dr. Vincent Amanor-Boadu, Kansas State University If you were to compare yourself to a movie star, who would it be? If you could be any musician, who would it be? If you could be...
The Reason I Write: Thought Management
My mind is often like a runaway truck barreling out-of-control down a mountain. It races so fast tiny puffs of smoke come out of my ears and you can hear gears grind as I try to downshift. It weaves in and out of traffic, blows its horn at slower drivers, scares the...

What It Takes to be a Pillar of the Community: A Tribute to Keith Sommers
The last time I talked to Keith Sommers, he had me belly laughing after Easter service at the Potwin Christian Church. Little did I know it would be our last conversation. Keith smiled and shook my hand; “You remember that story you told your first year in the pulpit...