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Friday night I'll portray CB Jernigan for the District Assembly of the Metro New York Church of the Nazarene. We're celebrating our centenial, and Jernigan was the District's superintendant in the 1920s. He, like I, moved from the country to the biggest city in the US. Most of the words of Jernigan'...

...to flying at dawn.

I had an unexpected booking in San Diego. I'm sad that it's too cold for body surfing, but I'm about to run through the waves. If you read the post below, you'll be relieved to know that I have on more than when we did this in college.

We got to have lunch with Mel and Carol Schroeder. Mel was one of my professors of theatre in college. I remember exactly where we were when he encouraged me to write. He reminded me that Beyond the Chariots brings my association with Chariots of Fire full circle. I had forgotten that I introduced a...

...we would attend The Well (TheWellChurch.com). We joined our friends Fritz and Shannon Liedtke (FritzPhoto.com) here and were blown away by this wonderful community. The average age is about 30, though in a Mothers Day competition for a Starbucks gift card we learned that the oldest mom is 75. The...

Joyce and I had a wonderful afternoon on the backroads along the Columbia River Gorge. We got off I-84 at Troutdale, stopped at the first gas station to find out where the old highway was. He gave us a free map with all the parks and waterfalls leading up to Multnomah Falls.

Last year the MasterWorks theatre program was blessed to have John Kirby as one of our master class instructors. He has 30 years of experience in Hollywood running his own acting studio and working on 17 feature films including Narnia, Deja Vu and The Count of Monte Cristo. He's launched the care...

(Your performance) was like opening a window and getting a breath of fresh air.
--Marge Kendall
mother-in-law of the late Mike Yaconelli

This is the view I saw every day growing up.

Peter Anderson just posted a thesis, which mentions Eric Liddell:  Communicating the News in  China today.

After dining along the amazing River Walk I came back.

I just heard from AIA registrars from Montreal staying in our hotel that there are about 20,000 architects and related vendors at this conference. That speaks to how quickly we're growing.

I'm here in San Antonio to teach presentation skills at the American Institute of Architects' National Conference.

I never realized how the city grew up all around The Alamo. It's literally right down town. That's a hotel on the other side.

This is a picture of Dad smudging (protecting the fruit from frost damage) four years before I was born. It's taken by Lloyd Smith, who's been a friend of the family since Dad was a boy. You can see all the shots he took that night by visiting his online gallery.

I helped smudge a handful of times o...

I met with Ken Wales last week while I was in Southern California. He's agreed to be a master class instructor at the MasterWorks Festival! He signed a copy of his latest book, which he co-authored with his wife, Susan, and Ted Baehr. There are numerous photos from the film and a great shot of Wal...

Our presentation this morning marked the 14th event in 8 states in 14 days: a personal record! I'll wait a few days before taking them down from RichDrama.com/Itinerary. The Lord was SO good to set up all these opportunities and to keep me strong the whole way through!

I'm lying in the grass alongside the Patomic with my shirt & shoes off.