Entries by lori
A Grandmother’s Tale
The lore this week has been around a missing lock of hair on my two-year-old grandson’s head. Clearly cut off by someone. Interrogation of the oldest one resulted in the possibility the young one had, in fact, done it himself. But not conclusive. Yesterday we were having fun with scissors and coloring books. I recorded […]
Why Retraining Your Attention Is the New Survival Skill
Once upon an Internet time, ads were relegated to banners and sidebars. If you don’t think ads are coming to AI, you’re kidding yourself. The future will require us to retrain our focus and attention like Olympic athletes. Read my latest series The Dopamine Era to learn where we are with our attention, and how […]
Christianity Isn’t About the Culture War — It’s About Following Christ
Being a Christian isn’t about debating issues in the public square. Somewhere in the last 50 years it became about issues instead of a Person. It’s about following Christ and being in such a close relationship with Him that you’re doing everything you can to be just like Him. Others from all corners of that […]
The Dopamine Era: What Distraction Is Costing You
Part 3 — What You’ve Already Lost A few weeks ago, I had a bit of an epiphany. I’d been posting on X for over a year. It was largely an experiment to see if I could stick with writing every day. I also hoped to rediscover my writing voice long lost to corporate speak. […]
The real fire to know God
‘This book is a modest attempt to aid God’s hungry children so to find Him. Nothing here is new except in the sense that it is a discovery which my own heart has made of spiritual realities most delightful and wonderful to me. Others before me have gone much farther into these holy mysteries than […]
The Restlessness of Chasing Midlife Dreams: Ambition in Your 50s
Your mid 50s brings you firmly into a place of expected wisdom and experience. My oldest grandson scraped his knee when he fell off his bike this morning. His mom cleaned it and put a Band-Aid on it. He told her she doesn’t know how to put a Band-Aid on because she’s not a grandma. […]
The search for significance
We’re so uniquely pressured to have impact outside of our immediate surroundings. It wasn’t too terribly long ago that people never ventured outside of their village in their whole entire life. The utility of having global impact was not a twinkle in anyone’s eye. Now, not only can we physically travel anywhere we want. But […]
Simplifying Your Scope Beats Perfecting Your Process
Quite the on ramp to yesterday’s video. 😂 My camera roll will always call shenanigans on my perfectionism. I realized I was struggling because I was trying to cover too much ground. The more complex, the harder it is for me to do it smoothly without any notes. These shorts are designed to be one […]
Why I’m Posting a YouTube Video Every Day
Last week I launched a series on YouTube called “Wisdom from the Wellhouse,” so named because I mostly office from a 10×10 wellhouse shed. These videos are short, quick takes. The idea is to just get started on YouTube. For many years, video has been my nemesis. I’ve shied away from it for a long […]