My Granddad had a big yellow tomcat. Sam was famous for having sired many a litter of yellow farm cats, but he was most famous for being the cat that attacked dogs. Sam learned at an early age to not only stand his ground around dogs, but to actually attack them if they wandered into the yard. … Continue reading The Cat Dogs Feared

In 1969, Red Hook was a straight-laced town. I remember the town being rocked  by a scandal at Bard College that Spring. When the Register Star and Daily Freeman hit our front steps one fine morning in May, they brought some big news. The headlines read, Bard students arrested! Marijuana! In all, close to 50 Bard … Continue reading The Jesus Movement Comes To Red Hook

Lori and I opened Jacob's Well April 5, 2005. Shortly after moving  to Kansas in 2002, we were talking about some of the things that we wanted to do. One of them was we wanted to take what we felt in our home, and bring it to Main Street. We wrote that down on a … Continue reading Jacob’s Well

                                                                            Junior High = Awkward Years   My Junior High yearbook pictures are so bad, they would make … Continue reading Junior High Days

If I were ever locked in a prison cell, and could only have one torn out page from the Bible as a companion, it would the first page from the Gospel of John. It is full of transcendence, and it stirs my heart every time with a sense of how other than, and beyond, the mystery of the … Continue reading Incarnation