Tag Archives: Life Musings

Wilmington, North Carolina

Here’s the physiology of it: through the magic water and placenta, through the uterus and skin and my wife’s thin cotton shirt, I could feel my son’s hiccups against the small of my back. My firstborn, unborn, aquatic little boy. Every three seconds.
Suddenly we were a southern family,

A Spiritual Wind & Parenting

“I haven’t read a single parenting book!” I laughed with my friends soon after having my first son. I guess I had a self-righteous moment where I thought the implications of reading a parenting book were legalism and too-high-expectations. But then that thought turned to logic, and I began a mental freak out.

News from the North

I’m 35. Not particularly old, not particularly young. I can run and jump. I feel it in my knees the next morning.

My son is five months. Such a tiny sliver of lifetime yet substantial enough that it’s hard to look past and remember anything without him. Those pre-Levin memories are there

Dangerous Margins

A relatively new show on cable called Portlandia is a sketch comedy series on the Independent Film Channel about “life in hipster enclaves and the self-consciousness that make hipsters desperately disavow the label” (Margaret Talbot, “Stumptown Girl,” The New Yorker, 2/2/2012).

Prayers for Artists

I had the opportunity to think about God’s creation and creative abilities during a recent Bible study meeting. I was astounded, probably again, by God’s awesome creative power. He created this entire world and everything in it–all that we see–but He did so with beauty and surprises.

In this time of advent,