Saint Hewett

It's overcast and rainy here in Kandern; it has been for several days. The forecast predicts more weather like this and a thunderstorm soon. I wrote a youth ...

I cut my hair off on Monday. Like, a lot of it. I chopped nearly a foot off in a braid, and my housemate took clippers to the rest. After skyping an alumni w...

I don't post absolutely everything on the internet, but the euphemistic pain I was describing in last week's post only got worse through this past week. I'm ...

"How are you today?" one of my AP seniors asked when he came into the room Wednesday. "Honestly, not great," I told him since I'd already confessed to a diff...

Six years ago, I started praying for my best friend to move to Germany. Five years ago, he moved to Germany - literally the week I moved to New Zealand. Then...

Last year I wrote a post about how I was living in an apparent utopia, and I drew some comparisons to LeGuin's short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omela...

Helen started this morning's lesson in church by asking the congregation what some of the biggest gifts they've ever received were. Some adults went spiritua...

I skipped church today. I've posted the last two weeks about feeling under the weather, and my body has finally been sleeping through the night and catching ...

You know how I said last week was rough? Well, I got sick this week, and it's still been rough. Don't worry, I already use essential oils, over the counter m...

I had a rough week. It feels like a month has passed since this morning and a year since last Sunday. I'm allowed to say that because I have an incredible su...

I don't make a great first impression. I'm aware of that. Fortunately, enough people stick it out with me that I have real friends. I still don't love meetin...

Mary Poppins says a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down, but I prefer the "laughter is the best medicine" approach to life. If any of you have inter...

I'm not sure if Michael Horton and David Platt are friends, but I love both of their respective books, Ordinary and Radical, as they teach different valuable...

I was going to post my annual playlist this week, but the awesome adventures call for a more exciting update. You see, tonight I went to a Hillsong church wi...

We're past the statute of limitations on certain spoilers, but I won't ruin Avengers for anyone. I did just get home from watching it, but you can read this ...

One of my students is convinced that all the choices we make are predetermined and that free will is an illusion. We have loads of great conversations about ...