The Notebook

The Heroes Who Showed Up — A Nurses Story There are some conversations you never forget. You remember where you were sitting, who was in the room, and the exact words that were spoken. Years later, you can still hear them as clearly as if they were spoken yesterday. For me, one of those conversati...

Sometimes the people who enter our lives to help us through our worst days become part of our best ones. Dear Christel, A few days ago, I saw your Facebook post showing your copy of my new book, *Saturday Morning Leadership*. You mentioned wanting me to sign it, and of course, I’d be honored. ...

I was especially looking forward to meeting three of the boys at the school: German—pronounced more like “Erman”—Matias, Jonas, Joshua, and Jorge. I had gotten to know them through Conversation Club, where we would get online together and give them a chance to practice their English. There i...

We spent last week in Mexico City, and there is a lot I could write about the place. It is enormous, crowded, colorful, loud and beautiful, sometimes all at the same time. There are houses painted in colors we would probably never have the nerve to use at home, magnificent old buildings, town square...

I started rebuilding this website yesterday. That probably doesn’t sound particularly profound. The old site had been sitting here for years. Some of the pictures were missing. A few links needed attention. There were articles I had almost forgotten I had written. But the harder part wasn’t fixi...

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  I consider myself a Missionary Writer. I began writing in 2004 with a blog titled, “The Southern Scribe.” Even though I was an early adopter in the Christian blogging world, as time went on, I doubted that blogging was here to stay. Due to my time constraints, I gave up blogging. On occas...

If you are old enough and were connected during the golden age of the internet, you probably heard your computer utter the now famous words, “You’ve Got Mail!” As a matter of fact, the famous voice is none other than Cleveland resident Elwood Edwards. Elwood got paid a whopping $20...

[callout]Would You Be Willing To Help Me? If you are a writer, blogger or a wannabe, I am doing one-on-one Skype calls March  14th, 15th and 18th to help gain insight on writing a course on self publishing your book. I want to learn about you and where you are at right now in your writing/publishi...

Back in October 2011, my wife Julie and I were in New York City during the time of the Occupy Wall Street protests to attend a conference on ministering to immigrants that are arriving daily in the United States.  While walking through the area around Wall Street in Manhattan, I came across the guy...