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 [...]

It was back in March of last year that I heard Don Miller speak at Sunset’s Men’s Retreat. He spoke on much of what is found in his latest book A Million Miles in a Thousand Years. And with the popularity of the book, the importance of story in our lives has become a common [...]

I’m slowly learning that while I may have a desire to be good at everything, it is much better to be excellent at a few things.
I get caught up in the desire to be an avid sports fan, be knowledgeable in politics, know all the latest music, be adept at video games and board games, [...]

Yesterday was the day from hell. Now obviously it could have been worse because everything before 1pm was perfect, but it went downhill quickly.
1pm: In court to dispute my ticket for riding on Mass Transit with a student pass. My school told me to purchase those…but Portland says they aren’t valid unless you are 17 [...]

I don’t write about myself too often, but now and then it seems necessary to update you on my real life…not just what I feel like writing about. I have no fancy name for these posts, so “life update” will have to do. So sorry.

Rose has had a month off from school, she starts again [...]

Often times I find myself fighting between the thought that I’m perfect or that I’m worthless. Take a look in the Bible and you’ll find verses for both.
Over the weekend I hurt my wife. Not physically…worse: emotionally.
I degraded her and made her feel worthless at the cost of me feeling like the top dog.
She doesn’t [...]