At what point did Dallas become a place that I would find hard to leave? I can distinctly remember driving Skylar behind a moving truck that Mikey and I were sharing when we first moved to Dallas back in 2006. I looked at the skyline and how relatively close our apartment was to it, and [...]
Reality is starting to set in: my days in Texas are numbered. Four days after I turned in my two weeks’ notice I was notified that business etiquette has effectively gone by the wayside. Upon becoming unemployed I came into some unforeseen free time that has clearly been spent in places other than odfm. I [...]
It was in the Summer of 2005 that I read Shadow of the Almighty, which tells the true story of missionary-martyr Jim Elliot and his time in South America from the perspective of his widow Elizabeth and large excerpts of his own journal. This account of Jim’s life and death encouraged me not only in [...]
Every guy remembers well his first car. Whether the memories are fond or foul, they are deep-seeded in the man who has been so fortunate as to own a vehicle. My first car was Roweena (pictured above in a never before published D.O. senior picture). If you’re able to see beyond the then very cool [...]
For over a decade of my life, Christmastime brought feelings of increasing excitement throughout December’s duration as I anticipated the morning when I’d discover what Santa had brought (which was really all I was concerned about… never mind celebrating the birth of Jesus). During much of that decade-plus I also grew excited about the hours [...]