Teaching feels like you’re a juggler. You juggle apples. Three of them. That’s what you were trained to do. Then, five minutes into your performance, you find out you have to add a fourth apple to the mix. You do it. That’s when the International Board of Juggling rolls a…

A condensed account of the sand castle of my faith being washed out to sea. Hi, I’m Nathan, and I’m a recovering evangelical. It’s been 12 years since my last quiet time. My childhood was spent in the church. Son of a Baptist minister. At church every Sunday morning, Sunday…

Over the weekend, I opened up the parent account for my 7th-grade daughter’s online grade book. The new trimester began three weeks ago, and this was my first real check-in. I waded into the virtual classrooms and soon found myself drowning in missing assignments. My wife was doing the same…

I have three excuses for why I got fat. Again. Number one, obviously, is the pandemic. No gyms. No group workouts. I’ve learned I’m not a self-starter when it comes to DIY fitness. Excuse number two is that we just moved across the country. I left a group of soccer…

Music has been cheap therapy for me this year. A metaphorical blanket that I wrap myself in when I’m overwhelmed, stressed, lonely, afraid, or any other byproduct of the perpetual gut punch that is 2020. Since life was upended earlier this year, I’ve been turning to music more than ever…