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In 3 Months: My New Novel, Swimming the Echo

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Hey all! In a little over 3 months (5.30.17), my newest novel, Swimming the Echo, will be hitting bookshelves, and I wanted to give you as much notice as possible. This novel will delve into more backstory of the fictional town of Seton, Kentucky (first featured in my story collection, Baptisms & Dogs (2014)), and the adventures…

Home is more than an address

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I think about home a lot. Especially since moving away.   Home – “the place where one lives permanently, especially as a member of a family or household.”   I like this definition better than some of the others online; it includes that one word, the adverb ‘permanently’. The image seems truer somehow, even if…

How to Break Free

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Jim Burgen’s, No More Dragons, from Thomas Nelson Books. (on shedding decades of gnarly scales)   His sermons (while at Southland Christian Church in Kentucky) were instrumental during my college years, and this book has taken it a step further with messaging that centers upon curing a hardened heart. Jim challenges the reader saying: becoming a dragon is…

Why Our Work Matters

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“Utterly alone, at the bottom of a fourteen-foot trench filled with water so thick with silt he literally couldn’t see his hand in front of his face, William Walker laid twenty-five thousand bags of concrete, slitting each bag open so the concrete could spread out as it set. He then used 115,000 concrete blocks and…
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