Spiritual insight and inspiration often come when least expected … as it came to me in the form of two real Starlings as I built my lightsaber.
Category: Thoughts
Personal musings and observations.
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The Meaning of Dragonlance
Down the years, Margaret and I have met countless others who have found in our words the strength to do hard things, the comfort to make it through the long nights or years, and the inspiration even to learn how to read.
Three ways we can ease our pain. In early May of 1991, I was flying back home from a convention. I happened to be sitting next to a very nice African-american man. It was a fated encounter that has shaped my thinking ever since. Los Angeles was in the middle of riots over Rodney King […]
“Have you turned it off and on again?” — Roy, ‘The IT Crowd’ I did not know that life had a reset button but now I can tell you that God is the one who gets to push it. My life changed one night when that button was pushed. Before that moment, I was an author, […]
It was thirty-three years ago today that my wife and I arrived in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin with our then two children. Our drive had really started four days before when we loaded what little we owned out of our apartment in Logan, Utah onto a moving van and drove south to meet my parents in […]
As long as I can remember,’what I want for Christmas’ has been the first and most paramount question of the holidays. It starts to rise up from the subconscious shortly before Thanksgiving and then blossoms full blown in my mind sometime after the turkey-fueled lethargy wears off and pumpkin pie is offered. It is an ageless […]
Laura and I had only been married about three years when Carl Sagan first appeared on our little portable color television in the original PBS series, ‘Cosmos’. The screen may have been small but his vision of the universe (in both the micro- and macro-scale) opened our eyes to greater horizons and perspectives. Decades and […]
I received a phone call today to tell me that perhaps I should find this article on what I said in a speech and that I should read it. I’m often intrigued by what people say that I said … and in this case what someone said that someone said that someone said that I […]
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Dragonlance: Leap of Faith
After being offered a job by TSR in February 1982, the most difficult part was saying yes. I had lived most of my life in Utah, had met my wife there, and our then two children had been born there. While it was true that as a missionary had traveled to the far side of […]