Java and Jesus

I love coffee. I was at a conference last weekend, getting ready to head out, when I thought about coffee. Thankfully, there was a Starbucks nearby, and to my great joy, they had a new flavor in their iced coffee line-up – Orange Spice. So I shelled out $4 and...

Musicals Make Me Happy

There is nothing on earth like an old musical, complete with random songs and dances that may or may not have anything to do with the plot. Huge crowds of people all moving at the same time, knowing the same song, cameras looking down as they twirl in circles,...

Don’t Worry.

I just did a Google search on “Worry.” It turned up 504, 000,000 pages. Pages that define worry, pages that diagnose worry, pages that medicate worry, pages that worry about worry. Five hundred and four million! Compare that to searches on ”Peace”: 198,000,000;...

Looking Up

Our family lived in Costa Rica in 2005. When we first moved there, I hated it. I know. You’re thinking I’m a crazy whiner. And you’re right. But here’s the deal: I was expecting tropical paradise. The reality – at least in San Jose – wasn’t quite that. We didn’t have...