2026 Reads: End of Days Ruby Ridge, the Apocalypse, and the Unmaking of America by Chris Jennings 📚

Phew, quite a read.

Started the 4th by running the 8k at the annual Fifth Season Races. PRd my 5-mile time at 41:30, was still only good enough for 11th in my age group (M45-49) and 151st overall. This race turns out some fast runners. Winner of my age group ran it in 30 minutes! 😳

2026 Reads: The Well of Ascension Book Two of Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson 📚

If Dansby Swanson decides to heat up his bat the second half of the season, I’m good with it. 2 HR yesterday, 2 more today and it’s only the 3rd inning! #Cubs #MLB

Eh I don’t like that share sheet. Let’s try again.

#running

Still hotter than Hades but a better run than yesterday!

First run this morning in a new pair of shoes. Like the shoes. Would’ve liked the run better if it weren’t already 80F with 90% humidity at 5:45 AM.

A pair of blue ASICS running shoes sitting on a patio table

The Sign of Them That Believe:

The real problem with fear is how it cripples love, how it enslaves us to self-preservation rather than freeing us for self-giving.

That’ll preach.

2026 Reads: Korean Messiah by Jonathan Cheng 📚

A meticulously-researched account of the formation of perhaps the greatest ever cult of personality.

Today Becky and I celebrate 28 years of marriage. Thankful. Planning a low-key day and an outing with the kids tonight. We’ll find space for a special night out next week. Such is life!

A tall man wearing a ball cap and a shorter woman with a pretty smile post for a selfie in front of a desert landscape