Quick overnight trip to Phoenix for a work offsite today. Still 100F after 9 PM. Oof.

2026 Reads: The Book of Love A Better Way to Read the Bible by Richard Beck 📚

Not perfect, but very, very good.

My wife and daughter were supposed to be home tonight, DCA -> CLT -> CID. Flight into CLT got diverted to RDU thanks to storms. Might get to CLT really late tonight. Best rebooking option is tomorrow evening to ORD and then I get to drive 4 hours over there to pick them up. What a mess!

My random playlist has decided it’s a choral music morning. I just got Palestrina, Rachmaninoff, and now Vaughn Williams all in a row. Lovely.

The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2026 so far

This list was longer than I expected… and gave me several to add to my library holds list.

“To read the Bible as a book of love, we have to trust that nothing can separate us from the love of God, not even our interpretive mistakes.”

Richard Beck, from his new book The Book of Love. Boom.

I fear to become the old guy posting about the weather, but how can you not appreciate this morning? A splash of rain overnight to freshen things; clear blue sky and crisp air only in the 50s as the sun came up. For June in Iowa, today is a treat.

Pete Crow-Armstrong gets a single to complete hitting for the cycle tonight against the Rockies…. then immediately gets picked off first base. In the 7th inning of a one-run game. #sigh #Cubs #MLB

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.