Colliding Ducks: My Standup Comedy and My Christian Faith

Currently, I’m tired. I haven’t been sleeping well. Anxiety about fulfilling my dreams keeps me awake. Last night I stayed up till 1am obsessively researching for my standup comedy. Yes, you read that right. One of my ducks not in a row, that I’m trying to train to walk, swim, and fly is my standup…

Ducks Not in a Row: Where I’ve Been and Where I’m Going

So much has happened in the last few weeks, months, years, decades. It’s hard to know where to start. I certainly can’t talk about it all. When I thought about writing this next, new “ducks not in a row” post, I wondered if maybe It would be good to start by describing how the blog…

Blessings and Misery (James 5:1-6)

Reading James 5:1-6 this morning made me realize how blessed we are in the U.S to have the luxuries we do. Yet it also made me feel uncomfortable, for James 5:1-6 warns those with luxuries, the rich, that they will experience misery. As I looked through the passage I found myself realizing it wasn’t because…

Five Tricks to Reading the Bible in a Year (or just every day)

I was in 8th grade when I first tried to read through the Bible. Then I tried again in 12th with one of those “Read the Bible in a year” Bibles. Neither worked. Then for lent a few years back I read a guided reading. After lent I continued experimenting on how I would read…