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Wife and youngest daughter are out on a trip this week, which means the middle kid and I are holding down the fort. Had a nice day today - the kid made dinner, then I spent the evening out with a fire in the firepit and a good book.
I have never read any Brandon Sanderson before starting Mistborn: The Final Empire yesterday.
So far it seems workmanlike almost to the point of being formulaic, but I’m enjoying the experience enough to want to keep on reading.
“I was good enough to serve [the church], but not good enough to care for. And care is what I needed.”
And with that Aaron J. Smith perfectly summed up my experience of two decades as an adult in the evangelical church.
2026 Reads: And the Dragons Do Come Raising a Transgender Kid in Rural America by Sim Butler 📚
A practical, honest voice. A lot of feelings that are familiar to me as the parent of a nonbinary kid.
2026 Reads: Prairie Fires The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser 📚
Having grown up with the Little House books, this thoroughly-researched biography puts them in quite a different light.
An amazing collapse by the Spurs. 76 points in the first half and only 30 in the second. Kudos to the Knicks for hanging in there. Brunson just refused to be stopped.
2026 Reads: The Violins of Saint-Jacques by Patrick Leigh Fermor 📚
Ran the 10k this morning as a part of the Cedar Rapids Marathon Weekend. 21st overall, first in my age group, and improved my PR by more than 3 minutes!
2026 Reads: God’s Homecoming by N. T. Wright 📚
Wright’s prose is clear as ever, his theology fine, but he leaves some big gaps that leave me less than satisfied overall.