My Friend Jim
This story was written a few years ago, but the details seem like a lifetime has passed. My journey has brought me to a place of wholeness and healing. Today godly men who live lives of honesty, and authenticity surround…
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My Present Reality
I’ve never been surer of anything in my life, even though I don’t know the details. Like an inviting path leading to who knows where, this is my present reality. Having recently uprooted a life of thirteen years and relocating…
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Hungers Opportunity
The road to culinary mastery didn’t begin with dreams of Michelin stars and Zagat ratings. My path was born of necessity on the desolate highway of hunger and emptiness. Hunger chased me down like a rabid animal, showing the initial…
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Big Green Kitchen
The quiet aloneness of early morning belongs to me. I own this time in my day, in my life. Oh that my entirety could exist in this rarified air, free from the imposition of anyone or anything uninvited. Awakening, my…
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To This I Am Called
The warm an inviting aromas of Hash brown Casserole, cinnamon rolls, and strong hot coffee permeated the morning stillness, and gave a sense of how things ought to be on a cold winter’s morning. Those wonderful smells belied the fact…
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Surprised By Sadness
As I sat in the waiting area of Vanderbilt Oncology Center, my thoughts wandered back to my pilgrimage to the Mayo Clinic several years ago. This morning I had the opportunity to help a friend who had to have a…
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Two Letters and the Journey to Wholeness
The journey to wholeness has traveled down the long road of rejection, and circled the mountain of fear and brokenness. Like the Israelites whose journey became an endless travail, so too has been my journey to discover that I am…
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Beauty And A Place Called Home
The familiar tree lined streets, coconut palms swaying with the rhythm of the day, and my beloved Gulf of Mexico the backdrop giving birth to a sweet melancholia as our impending move to Tennessee looms in the near distance. The…
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Cemeteries And Cracked Coffee Mugs
Two seemingly abstract, unrelated happenings occurred recently causing me to pause and look for answers, funny how life does that. As a species we look for order and meaning, to find a stasis that settles us. As I reflect on…
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Falling In Love With My Mom
(The story of transformation from hate to tenderness) Love has many manifestations. “Falling in love” is usually thought of in romantic terms. I however, have experienced falling in love not in the romantic sense but in a way that was…
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