Checking In
The check for the essay I wrote about Craft Beer.... For the last year or two, I have made more of a concerted effort to be active about my media/writing work. Most of the opportunities that I have had are in my vocational area of working with high schoolers to discover and develop their giftings and goals. It is truly my day job and I am extremely grateful for it. I essentially get paid well to be helpful and informed about things that interest me. Career and Calling is the essential foundation. A lot of dumb and unwise stuff that teens get themselves sucked into are because they have no vision about their life. With that lack of long-term gaze, all of the churn and chaos of the sometimes awful world of adolescence overtakes them. Social Media has been profoundly unproductive and unhealthy for high schoolers. I told a gaggle of girls embroiled in a conflict the other day that if I were king, I would feed all of their smartphones into a high-powered wood chipper and pulver...