Grow up around any creative industry, and chances are you won’t see it like everyone else. For example, if your Dad is a football coach for an NFL team, the chances of you not meeting a famous player are very low. If your Mom works as a CPA for an accounting firm that only deals…

American culture is so ingrained in each of us that we fail to recognize and be thankful for the things we do have. Instead, we focus on our desires, wants, and perceived needs. Isolationist attitude with our closed-off homes with automatic garage door openers and outside back decks hidden behind privacy fencing. Does any of…

               In the Midwest, it’s time for school. Traffic is a bit dense for students traveling to the university, high school, junior high, and elementary schools between 7 and 8 o’clock each morning. In Missouri, the weather is humid and hot, like the start of most school years. It’s not like the west coast, where…

I had confidence in using the term, storyteller. I believed one word was self-explanatory. But I hadn’t tested it until my friend said, “I didn’t understand what ‘storyteller’ meant until you explained how you can tell stories.” I wasn’t clear? How was that possible? I thought ‘storyteller’ is compelling, right? But what if I confused…

So, the first time I got in big trouble, and I’m talking grounded to the house for a few days, was when I was six. That’s right. My first time in that situation, and I’m barely in school, hanging out with my best friend, Mark Driscoll. He lived on 3rd Avenue South, just a few…

I was what you might call the idea man when I was younger. I came up with all kinds of wild, crazy ideas. Melville may have been my given middle name by birth but adventure? That is my real middle name. Adrenaline junkie? Also me.