(This is the third post of my sea cook adventure. Click to read the first installment and the second installment.) How many times have you embarked on an adventure and, partway through thought, “What have I gotten myself into?” Every adventure has an upside and downside. Most of the time,… Continue reading
(This is the second post of my sea cook adventure. For the first post, please go here.) I’m not sure what sea cooks of old planned for meals, but I’m betting it wasn’t PB&Js, pot pies, or fettucini pasta. I’m also betting sea cooks didn’t keep log books. I… Continue reading
Adventure is both a noun and verb. I like the verb version best. “I’m going adventuring,” not “I’m going on an adventure,” although both are perfectly acceptable. Inside my chest is a tiny adventure gremlin. It spends about six months to a year growing and sharpening its little claws before it… Continue reading
I’m a contracted author, which means my blog can no longer be simply an online journal. It needs purpose now, vision, poise, and professionalism, right? With a touch of humanness, of course. Many different words of advice have gone out about fiction authors blogging, or just blogging in general: Don’t… Continue reading
Authors dream about adventures. Then they write them. And readers enter them. My goal as an author is not just to convey that thirst and pursuit for “something great”, but to urge and inspire my readers (and myself) to live them. I want my writing and my life to be… Continue reading
I believe God stretches time for me. Not metaphorically, but literally. This belief started when I committed myself to consistent morning devotions in the last few years. I don’t know about you, but the word devotions has been so overused in the Christian world it almost rubs me the wrong way.… Continue reading
