Leapin' Lizard (my high school nickname)
Today I took a leap into the great unknown and quit all ties to a newspaper, even to a newspaper that wasn’t going to publish me very often but that I thought about a lot. Today I launch myself completely into the world of blogging. Today I become…not a man obviously, but a person with no direct outlet for what I’m writing except what I can drum up for myself. A little un-nerving, this idea of independence. It goes along with what I was reading this morning about the loaves and fishes and walking on water. The idea that you should take a leap of faith when that leap stands there in front of you, wagging its tail, saying, “Here I am, come and get me.” That leap says so much about everything we do in life. It addresses our fears for tomorrow: Will I be forgotten or left behind if I don’t have a job or a title or something I can pin my hat on and have others recognize as me? A friend of mine was talking about a recent procedure she had to enlarge her throat. Her thro...