Guest Blogger: Vince Antonucci I grew up in a verbally abusive home. My father’s violent tirades were like heart-seeking missiles. And if my father, someone who was obligated to love me, couldn’t love me—if he couldn’t find anything special in me, I reasoned I must be defective. I needed a place to escape, and I […]
My mom and dad did something to me as an infant that stayed with me for the rest of my life. Now before you go thinking it was something truly awful, I’ll just tell you: they misspelled my middle name. My middle name is Randell. When my fiancée at the time, Alyssa, was creating our […]
I’m very pleased to be guest posting at literary agent Chip MacGregor’s blog today. The title of the post is “How to Be a Christian Author without Embarrassing God.” Here’s how it starts: Tony Campolo wrote a book a while back titled Following Jesus without Embarrassing God. In it Campolo challenged Christians to let go of practices […]
I wanted to bring you up to speed on a few things and then just for fun share some videos that have caught my attention lately. Goings-On In terms of goings-on, here and there I’ll be cutting back to one post a week so I have time to work on some ebook projects and guest […]
I’m reading Bob Goff’s book, Love Does. It’s a good book, I recommend it. I just finished a chapter in which Goff relates how awful he was as a Little League baseball player. He was so bad that everybody groaned when he went up to bat. Their only hope was that he would get hit […]
Recently it was “Be your favorite storybook character” day at my son’s school. Last night at dinner we talked about how best to embody Pete from Pete the Cat. Not one for makeup, my son opted for drawing a picture of Pete and pinning him to the canvas of a white T-shirt. My son is […]
Once upon a time a man carved a block of wood into a butterfly for his sister. His sister loved the butterfly. “You should make one for Mother,” she said, “she’ll be so happy.” The man made another butterfly, and his mother held it close to her heart. “Everybody I know would love one of […]
In the fall of 2011 I invited some folks to get together for the purpose of nourishing creativity. Honestly I didn’t know what would come of it. I was so nervous I literally trembled in our first meetings. I desperately wanted us to gel and support each other, but it was risky. Some of us […]
Recently I participated in a Q & A session for writers at Baker Book House—a very fine Christian book store in Grand Rapids, Michigan. (By the way, if you don’t already subscribe to Louis McBride’s “Baker Book House Connection,” it’s worth your time. While you’re at it, check out the blog of Josh Mosey, the […]
I do quite a bit of traveling for my job. In the past when I arrived at an airport, I immediately beat feet to my next gate. If it was meal time I scarfed something down on the way or at my gate. I realized at some point that this sense of urgency, while sometimes […]
