Journal

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Loop Ends When You Do. I didn’t come up with that. I heard it years ago from someone who said it the way people say things when they’ve lived it rather than read it. It stayed with me the way the useful ones do. Quiet in the back … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Man Who Collected Happy didn’t call it that. That’s just what it was. He traveled for work, same as a lot of people, but somewhere along the way he had made a decision that the airport route was not the only route and that a few extra days … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Empty Stool was the last seat in the house. Every other spot at the counter was taken and the booths were full and the lunch crowd was doing what lunch crowds do, moving fast, talking loud, not paying much attention to the young man who slid onto that … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast Mile Zero doesn’t look like much. It’s just a driveway. A cup of coffee going cold in the cupholder. A map you’ve already looked at three times even though you don’t really need it. The engine running. The garage door still open behind you like it’s giving you one … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Regular doesn’t always have a name on the sign out front. But everybody inside knows who he is. He’s the one who comes in at the same time, sits in the same spot, orders the same thing, and tips the same way every single time. Not because he’s … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Man Who Was the Building didn’t introduce himself. He didn’t need to. You understood who he was the moment you walked through the door at Hackberry General Store and saw him moving behind the counter with the quiet ease of someone who had been doing this long enough … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Boy Who Wanted to Watch wasn’t causing trouble. He just wanted to see everything. The lifts going up. The air guns spinning lug nuts off like they weighed nothing. The machines that balanced the tires.  So many question but sadly, Jacob hadn’t figured out how to ask yet … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Centennial Seeker found me before I found him. I was halfway through breakfast at a Route 66 diner when I heard him ask the waitress a question about the towns. The ones that should have been gone by now. The ones that had every reason to dry up … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast If It’s Your Calling, It Will Keep Calling. You’ve probably seen that on a coffee mug or a piece of wall art somewhere between the kitchen and the front door. Maybe you smiled at it. Maybe you walked right past it. Maybe it stopped you for just a second … Read more

Watch or listen: Vodcast | Podcast The Detour Called Self-Doubt doesn’t announce itself. It doesn’t put up a sign or flash a warning light. It just quietly redirects you and before you know it you’re sitting on the hood of your car at a gas station just off the highway staring at your phone like … Read more