Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

Living

Life is hard. And full. And awesome. Live it.

  • Earlier this year, I made the decision to celebrate the fun moments in life. The milestones and the happy things that happen along the road of living. Not all of them happened like I planned. I forgot to celebrate my 13,000th day of life. I missed my 600th blog post I have yet to celebrate…

  • Hair

    My son got a hold of a phone. I love the result. Published via Pressgram

  • I took a break from my sermonizing to capture the sky; it’s pink-dappled clouds on a purple backdrop. It was an image so big that it forced its way through my small office window, distracting me. This moment was two-thirds of the way through, but it captures the chasing-darkness aspect of writing as well as…

  • As much as she loves the gathering with family and her cousins, I think my Baby’s favorite part is the projects. Published via Pressgram

  • A new look

    One of the commonly-held rules of blogging is not to change your site. Pick a theme and stick with it. Sorry. I can’t. It isn’t who I am. The furniture in my childhood home never stayed in one place for more than a few months at a time. One room or another was always being…

  • The church is failing our daughters and one thing can change that: we make their well-being a priority. Because right now, we aren’t. We claim love, diversity, equality, faith, commitment, responsibility, duty, honor, respect and so much more are our values, and we do a lot of good things. But what is our greatest priority?…