From book to film — it’s an author’s dream. But more great pieces end up in purgatory than they ever do on celluloid. It’s common for a popular book, script or story idea to be scooped up by Hollywood bloodhounds, only to languish in development, suffer repeated rewrites and pass through multiple hands before being indefinitely shelved. [...]
Perhaps reflecting on home is a normal part of travel. It’s paradoxical, isn’t it? We yearn to get away, explore exotic locations, and leave behind the mundane routines of everyday, only to discover our pillows are softer, our mosquitoes more civil, and the routines we fled recall a strange sort of stability. I’ve traveled more in [...]
This morning, my dearest, best-est friend and I are winging our way from the sunny confines of SoCal to a more tropical clime. Sorry folks, but Decompose is closing shop for a bit. And for good reason. Lisa and I were married twenty-six years ago this week. A lot has gone down in the interim. [...]
It is not a coincidence that some of the greatest words ever written, were written on a mountaintop. Of course, Moses had some assistance. But if he’d stayed in his air-conditioned tent with Mom and the kids, it’s doubtful that the Ten Commandments would have ever been penned. Writing is a lonely profession. For most of [...]
I’d been planning on flying to Dallas, to the American Christian Fiction Writer’s conference, for about a year. So when I woke up last Tuesday, two days before the event, with a fever and a hellacious sore throat, I was worried. By the time I flew out of California, it was official: I was sick. [...]
Thursday, at 6:30 a.m., I’ll be flying out of Ontario Airport for Texas, to the biggest Christian writer’s conference in the nation. It’s my first such conference, so I figured I’d dive in the deep end. Being that I’m such an a.) homebody, b.) introvert and c.) pessimist, it’s quite a step of faith for [...]
A.W. Tozer suggested that Jesus was either perfectly loved or perfectly hated, but that He never provoked indifference. No doubt, it was statements like the following that fueled Tozer’s observation: Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14:6 NIV). With [...]
Camassia recently used my post, Salvation by the Sword, to springboard into an interesting discussion. Being that I don’t know Camassia, I was a little surprised to discover myself being quoted and commented upon. I guess all’s fair in love and blogging. Camassia makes some excellent points, but to bottom-line it, objects to the denunciation of [...]
Okay. For the most part I’m keeping things the same. After scouring the worldwide web, I’ve come to the conclusion that I like the look of Decompose. It’s slightly different from the “typical” website (and I like being slightly different). I was initially thinking about going to a more traditional look, but in the end, I still prefer the [...]
