If you don’t know the wild story of Oskar Speck, you should. He’s the man who kayaked more than 31,000 miles around the world, spending 1932 to 1939 paddling his way from Germany to Australia. To call him an adventurer shortchanges everything he actually did. Born in 1907, Oskar grew up in Hamburg, Germany. By […]

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I’m currently reading Richard Rohr’s Falling Upward for the second time. I pulled it down from my bookshelf after talking to a handful of people who feel like their soul is in a wrestling match with the rest of the world. Careers in flux. Identities in crisis. Life-goals in detour. Every word of Richard’s is powerful. It’s […]

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When it comes to storytelling, we’ve been sold a load of goods. Maybe it’s the fault of the movies, making us believe that if a story is going to earn the right to be told, then it has to pack a global punch. If it doesn’t make us laugh, cry, or run to the masses […]

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When a story changes the way you think, the way you move through the world, and the way you see yourself and others, that’s when it takes on the role of something bigger. It’s no longer just plot and theme and character. It’s more than the formulaic circle of the hero’s journey. It becomes alive […]

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