Thanks for finding my site.

Here are a few bits of info about me. I’m married and we have two cats and a dog. I’m a retired United Methodist pastor, working the final ten years of ministry in hospice care. I enjoy writing and agree with Flannery O’Connor’s insight: “I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.” I’ve spent some of my best times literally high in the mountains with a pack on my back and a trail stretching before me. Though I happily give advice or opinions in my writing, I recognize that listening and learning and being curious are among our best shared virtues.

(The picture is from the early 2000s. I was tramping somewhere in Yosemite because, as John Muir said, “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike.”)