300 words a day

Rich Dixon is back to talk a bit about the important third member of the team: +++ In Sikeston, Missouri, our three “person” team encountered a local restaurant & interactive tourist landmark – Lambert’s Cafe created its reputation based on “Throwed Rolls.” Seriously. Want another roll? Raise your hand and a guy tosses it across […]

Many new parents keep the ink and skin prints of their infant child’s hands and feet. Often, in some craft project in school or scouts or Sunday school, hands are captured in plaster, with “happy mother’s day” scratched above in a font named “indecipherable.” I understand. We probably have one or the other around, too. […]

As we read about Pharaoh in Exodus 1, we read about a person who has the power to destroy lives, to change everything. Because he was treated as a god, what he said was done. But really, all of us can, in fear, destroy lives. Perhaps not on the scale of Pharaoh, but we can […]

God. We think that we have it bad. And we do have it hard, often, looking at ourselves, looking in the moment. I remind people often that we cannot compare grief. That said, the world Moses was born into was pretty rough. The government wanted him dead before he was born. The government wanted everyone […]

I was making a list for a friend the other day. He’s not sure what direction to take after his current position is done. I listed two or three things and then I started to write, “Build connections.” I crossed it out. I wrote, “Build people.” I understand that connections are important, that networks lead […]