Writings from the Dirt Road

Thoughts as the year burns down.

This Christmas, Adriene and I traveled to Nashville to see a Christmas concert at the Ryman Auditorium by Andrew Peterson. However, this was no ordinary concert, but instead of gathering of the “who’s who” of artists no one has ever heard of. Artists like Phil Keaggy, Pierce Pettis, Julie Miller, [...]

Five years ago, I made a secret trip to Nashville on the shortest day of the year. It may sound dramatic, but in some way, the little journey changed my life. To celebrate the anniversary and to celebrate the anniversary of my wedding, my wife and I returned to Nashville. Night hung over the city [...]

SO, IT’S BEEN A LONG YEAR
I haven’t been writing much. The events of September 11, 2001 rendered anything that I was concerned about pretty small, and there was certainly nothing that I could write that would make things right or comfort those who hurt. There haven’t been many things in life that made me truly, [...]

THIS IS PLAN B
Plan A was to capture my feelings and thoughts on the eve of one of the biggest days of my life, two days removed from getting married. I was to write a feverish scribble by candlelight there in the dead of winter and, hopefully, snatch some that anticaption, uncertainty, and mystery that [...]