unworthy son of God, lucky husband, and work-in-progress dad. Plus, as I tell one of my neighbors and congregants, a "pastor disaster." Just a guy who opened up his Open Diary after a decade, and began writing again.

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I Want the Passion to Bear Fruit This Time

August 3, 2023
What started it this time, I can't remember. It's always there, so when it rears its head, it's sometimes ambiguous as to its definite arrival, it's definite, "Go. Go." On a whim, on an early day in July, so a month ago, from my office computer I first looked up jobs that would be suitable…
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Recent Entries

  • Homesick for Not My Home…Yet
    August 2, 2023
    North Country Federal Credit Union. Morristown VT. I want to do my banking there. Why? I currently do my banking at a local credit union here in Idaho. My married life has been here for ten years. My whole life, I've practically been here for 29 years. I have made "roots," here. But I want…
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  • Writing for an Unknown Audience
    August 1, 2023
    I opened up Open Diary yesterday, as I was in a pensive, reflective mood. At age 33, I feel like I'm too early for a midlife crisis. However, having gone through a wife with cancer, a lost child at the beginning of that experience... and pastoring a church for almost ten years, and in the…
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  • the dark knight rises
    August 15, 2012
     Long time no rambling, I know ---- Been a long half a year... I've since then gotten married... and find myself on one of my first times of being home alone while the wife is off at a county fair. Being a die-hard Batman fan, she was nice enough to watch the new Batman movie…
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  • give me a break.. (political rant)
    March 8, 2012
    I've come out of my hole of silence, to once again write a political entry where I couldn't anywhere else. And though no one responds to these things, I, yet again, digress to fulfill my temporary desire of political rambling... Give. Me. A. Break. Typing away, as I usually do, when what to my wa...
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  • In the beginning, DIRT
    November 2, 2011
    I've been in an awkward mood lately. It's not struggling in my faith so much as I believe it, but it's struggling with the fear noting the world we live in. I feel like the vast majority of Americans anyways, don't believe in God. This depresses me. I don't know why - I used to…
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  • a generation of panzies.
    October 31, 2011
    What happened to macho man? What happened to running around, playing cops and robbers, cowboys and indians, whatever, and scuffin your knee up? Or falling off the jungle gym and getting a rock in your face, or playing on the merry-go-round and being dumb enough to jump off. yeah it hurts at the t...
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  • catchin up.
    October 24, 2011
    So obviously my entries have been elusive lately. I've been off Open Diary, as I've been on the roller-coaster of life! This entry jumps around, so don't look for solid continuity :P My birthday was a good week! My fiance made me chocolate peanut butter pie, and holy moley, it's so rich and delic...
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  • refreshing like a glass of tea.
    October 2, 2011
    I'm drinking a glass of iced tea rights now, and uh - it's delish::::::..... This past weekend was amazing. I gave her the ring finally. It's amethyst cut into a purple heart, with 4 stones leading up to the heart on either side of the middle. You can see it here. Not traditional engagement ...
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  • a symphony for autumn.
    September 26, 2011
     a faint ray of light makes it through the falling leaves, as another stream of wind suspends its descent i smile, walk on, my hands in pockets, warmed, indeed   falls of the past come to me, as soothing as coffees that find their way to my nose, and i remenisce the innocence within me,...
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