Oh, it’s the second full week of 2010 and the second “Dispatches” of the year. Aren’t you the tiniest bit excited? Just a little?...

Yeah, totally happened to me today. I don’t generally oversleep. I don’t push snooze 400 times. That doesn’t mean I think I’m better than...

I have nothing really to write today, other than to say this: KU got beat! Oh, the joy of waking up in a world in which such a thing has...

So, without any more ado, I give you “Almost . . . Something,” a post from July 3, 2008: I love the movie Almost Famous. Yes, I know...

Seeing that it’s Friday, Metro schools are out AGAIN, presumedly because there’s salt on the roads today and a semi carrying chicken...

Today, dear readers, is off to an auspicious start. I forgot my badge. I therefore had to call security to get through the security gate...

So, you know you’ve missed this weekly missives from me. Your holidays were lacking only in that you didn’t get any “Dispatches,” right?...

(So, there were a few moments when I thought I’d be posting something else here today. I mean, after yesterday, I thought I’d deep-six...

Sometimes, I think of January like one of those pictures of a New England winter. You know the ones. There’s a lonely road curving around...

Yes, the year is approximately 2 days old, but I’m already learning. What, you wonder? Well, if you’d just be a little more patient, I’d...

Back then, I couldn’t figure out what to name the award, but since most of you went with “the Mandys” that’s what I’m going with this...

Oh, dear comfy bed, I dreamed of you while at my parents house. You don’t hurt my back. I don’t roll to the middle when I lie on you. You...

I realize the words “excited sadness” don’t really fit together that well, but when I tried to come up with the way I felt, they’re the...

If you had to pick a movie family to be your own, which one would it be? If there was a movie that could best describe your Christmas,...

So it’s the Wednesday for Christmas. I’m waking up in my bedroom at my parents house. It’s quite, except for the TV that’s blaring the...

Sometimes, the drive from Nashville to my parents’ house is just plain boring. Most of the time actually. I mean, after you get out of...

Later today, I’ll pack up the car and drive to Missouri. Christmas will begin, with all it’s craziness and joy. My family will go...

Seeing that I’m kind of out of it today and actually got up, ate breakfast, then went back to bed for awhile, I’m not sure writing...

At church today, we talked about the Christmas story in both my small group and during the sermon. Sitting there, I was struck by the...

It’s been a long week, y’all. I’m not going to lie. But it’s Friday. Fun is in store. And the Christmas vacation kind of got started last...