Capturing Your Creative Ideas

Capturing Your Creative Ideas

About 25 years ago, I sat across from Larry, a graphic designer. He sketched a pair of salt and pepper shakers in his sketchbook as we talked. He told me he used the book to write down cool ideas, draw sketches, and glue in samples of things he liked. And it got me...
Amazon Order from an Eskimo Village

Amazon Order from an Eskimo Village

My wife is a reseller on Amazon and eBay. She was sitting at the table when she told me she got an order from Golovin, Alaska. She had heard me talk about Golovin a lot over the years. I spent a week there in the summers of 1981 and 1982 teaching Vacation Bible...
Making Friends on a Canadian Turkey Farm

Making Friends on a Canadian Turkey Farm

There was a group of 10 of us heading back to Michigan from Alaska. We’d driven up there on a mission trip to do Vacation Bible School and work on parsonages in different Eskimo villages. Was a great trip and we were ready to get home. Through some connection, we...