Shield Maiden

How can you tell if someone read the book before seeing the movie? Don’t worry. They’ll tell you. As a general rule, you can always...

Princess Jasmine is my favorite Disney Princess. Let me say that again. Princess Jasmine is my favorite Disney Princess and has been...

I just got a new DSLR. It was a very generous birthday present from my parents. I love it. It took a little bit of time to get used to,...

Talk about the blind dating the blind, every time I try to write anything about dating or one of the teenage girls I work with at camp...

It was a sunny Friday afternoon when I stopped off at the office. Just a quiet day out at camp, getting ready for our June board meeting,...

Sometimes I forget that Jurassic Park is fiction and that there isn’t really a tropical island near Costa Rica filled with dinosaurs....

I once had some friends come to visit me from 100 miles away. This was supposed to be fun. Instead, one of them, the one who drove,...

They used to say that lighthouse keepers went mad because of solitude. That was probably some of it, solitude is difficult, I think it...

Whenever I watch a movie that has a Lara Croft, Wonder Woman, Black Widow, leather clad, gun toting, crime fighting, martial arts female...

(As honest of a post as I can write about how I feel aimless) A friend said to me once, "all hikes in Washington lead to overlooks and...

I have been hanging out on occasion with a guy who is an aerospace engineer. What he does isn't actually important to the friendship, but...

Did you know that Lord of the Rings was released 12 years after The Hobbit? At the beginning of 2014 I had a great idea for a novel...

Can I tell you a secret? I feel like an impostor most of the time. I don’t mean that I have impostor syndrome. I am not faking my job and...

The other day a friend of mine went out for sushi... alone. Something she had never done before. Something she was so proud of herself...

He leaned over me and kissed my neck, a jolt of electricity arced through my body, running down my spine… He was the first person that I...

Sometimes I forget that Jurassic Park isn't real and that there isn't a tropical island near Costa Rica filled with dinosaurs, and, for a...

This is a call to the Christian Artists of my generation. The 30 something, millennials, the gen-exers, even the Z's. What are we doing?...

God takes joy in our joy. I know that much about God and nothing else. For years I have wondered what possible use God could have for my...

I have been thinking a lot lately about generational conflict. Specifically, about how I feel like I was failed by previous generations,...

I hurt all of the time and, quite frankly, I am done praying about it. I have spent a year and a half, and somewhere around $5000, going...