I started an MFA in Creative Writing at Alma College. Which kind of took precedence over the other thing I started: another YouTube channel for making episodes of my MLB the Show 24 franchise.
Reading — On Heights & Hunger, Hidden Potential, One Long River of Song, and lots of comics
Finished — We Become What We Normalize, Sabbath as Resistance, Breaking The Code, Jesus and John Wayne, A World Without Email
Watching — movies while the kids were at camp, Loki, The Bad Batch
updated July 15, 2024
This week: Updated the website for spring! Cut my beard short and shaved my head again. Celebrated Holy Week and Easter and went to Sophia’s first tennis match of the new season.
Rebooted the podcast in the fall as a weekly and less scripted. Added videos.
Reading — Jesus and John Wayne, Breaking the Code, and lots of comics
Finished — The Art of Gathering; Revelation for the Rest of Us; The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory; The Song of Significance
Watching — Star Trek: TNG; Psych; Teen Titans Go!
updated April 2, 2024
Slowing down for Lent has me stretched a lot less thin. Appreciating the ability to recognize the stuff I’m actually doing and forgetting. Some factors include:
- Shifted the podcast to something more like monthly.
- Pausing my weekly video series on the Bible.
- Abandoning my plans for Bullet Journal videos.
Some of this registers in my brain as failure, but in the meantime, I’ve kept up daily blogging, tending to my tasks, forcing more control over email, and making my life less stressful.
Reading – Stolen Focus, The Stand, The Persuaders, and lots of comics
Finished – The Little Book of Hygge, The Four Tendencies, Quiet, The Invisible Man, Dooku, The Icarus Deception, The Waste Lands, Upgrade, Herding Tigers, Rules of the Red Rubber Ball, Range
Watching – Andor, School of Rock, Ant-Man and Wasp
Projects – The podcast is well into its second season. The videos are on pause. Planning to redo the website soon. And I’m playing a lot with Notion.
updated March 20, 2023
Just joined Mastodon. If you’re into it, find me @[email protected].
updated November 21, 2022
Got COVID this week. Slowed me down a bit.
Season Two of the Make Saints podcast has started. Focus is on “productivity”.
Moving the Problem in the Text series to my main YouTube page. It is easier to focus on a single spot. I also started some tutorials about bullet journaling. For funsies.
Reading (comics) — just finished the House of M storyline and started Decimation.
Watching — Severance, Ms. Marvel
updated September 10, 2022
I updated my website. Since I like playing, I’m still tinkering with ideas.
And by the way, check out my Link In Bio Page.
Launched my podcast last fall. If you haven’t checked it out, please give it a listen! Took a break over the summer, but am getting back into it this week.
I also launched a YouTube channel with the same name. I’ve retooled my weekly reflections into a series of short videos called Problem in the Text. For longtime followers, this is an update of the videos I used to do almost a decade ago called Eating Scripture. At the moment, I’m really interested in what is possible with video.
My daily blog practice has hit over 50 days in a row. I’ll write about the process soon.
Meanwhile, I’ve spent about a year planning to relaunch a newsletter. Obviously that has been on the back burner.
The pandemic really changed the way we approach education, the needs of the moment, and how we engage. And yet, at the same time, it looks like nothing has changed. We’ll see how it shakes out.
School is starting and so much is happening!
Reading – Star Wars: Into the Dark, A World Without Email, and lots of X-Men comics
Finished – The Bullet Journal Method, The More of Less, Kenobi
Watching – Blackish, Star Wars Rebels
Projects – The podcast is at thirty-three episodes. Plus a bonus one. the videos are at seven (this week)
Updated August 15, 2022