I got home at 2am on Saturday morning from Seattle, so this post is going up on Sunday because I didn’t want to write at 2am. Surprising right? I have only missed one week in the last 2 years, so a day late seemed better than skipping.
Rose and I have had a wonderful August, as [...]

Yesterday I had the chance to go to Catalyst One Day in Seattle. Catalyst is well-known for putting on great events and this was no exception.
I especially enjoyed the format of everything fitting into one day. My previous conference experiences had always been around at least two days, and anything longer than a day and [...]

Last night I drove by my watershed moment.
It happened 5 years ago this week.
Driving from Anaheim to Salem (a 14 hour trip usually) with my then girlfriend, I was 30 minutes from home at 4am when I fell asleep behind the wheel.
I woke up driving through a construction zone hitting pylon after pylon of orange [...]

Yes, it is that time again. Fantasy football time. Our new national past time. Yes I made that up.
As of right now there are 7 spots left, but I could expand the league beyond that if there are enough people who want in on the action.
We do fantasy football the whole way with individual defensive [...]

8 weeks. Portland. No rain. Looks like the beautiful run might come to an end Sunday though.
My in laws are in town this weekend for my father in law’s 40 year HS reunion. This time he and his old touring band are getting back together for a trip down memory lane. Read this newspaper story [...]

Last week The Wall Street Journal ran a story that was an excerpt from Brett McCracken’s book Hipster Christianity that just came out. Brett has an awesome blog, and I think a great perspective on what hipster Christianity is and looks like. As someone from Portland surrounded by hipsters my age, I think he’s nailed [...]