Abundant Life Bleak Beauty 6 Feb 2017 I drove through southeast Montana with the moon rising before me and the sun setting behind me. The mountain ranges in Montana are truly spectacular. Standing at the foot of…
Abundant Life MTM (Part 2) 2 Feb 20172 Feb 2017 The day I signed that contract I had $11 and some loose change to my name. I had enough food in my refrigerator to get me through to the first…
Abundant Life MTM (Part 1) 2 Feb 2017 My heart flooded with nostalgia when I read about Mary Tyler Moore's passing last week. Her eponymously named TV show ended the year I began, putting every episode I watched…
Abundant Life… Moscow, Russia (Part 1) 19 Jan 2017 My trip to Moscow started last spring when I submitted my abstract to the SPE Russian Oil and Gas Conference for acceptance. It is possible that my trip started earlier…
Abundant Life… Winter Hiking 31 Dec 201631 Dec 2016 On or about December 30, I remember my annual resolution to go on more hikes. To get a running start on my New Year's resolutions, I start lining them up…
Abundant Life ex nihilo 24 Dec 2016 Ex nihilo - out of nothing. I first heard this phrase in my Biblical Ecology course in Divinity School. One moment it meant nothing, the next everything. Christmas is coming.…
Abundant Life On Gender Studies 5 Dec 20166 Dec 2016 Warning: graphic material follows. In Divinity school, a typical weekly assignment would be reading several texts (both ancient and modern) and writing up a two page perspective on how the…
Abundant Life… Ridiculous 22 Nov 201622 Nov 2016 Every writer, entrepreneur and creative type I read about has one unexpected commonality: gut-leadening fear of putting "it" out there. Occasionally, the compulsion to put forth one's work is so…
Abundant Life… Pride of Place 17 Nov 201617 Nov 2016 The duplex I live in is a darling little home: my living space has blond wood floors, windows with sunlight streaming in every room, a warm wall color (not the…
Abundant Life… Productive vs. Effective 15 Oct 2016 I picked up Benjamin Franklin's autobiography and flipped through his writing. As far as human beings go, B. Franklin managed staggering productivity and effectiveness on several fronts throughout his lifetime. Notably,…