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by Eddie Pipkin Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay My wife and I did not send Christmas cards this year. We've been mailing out season's greetings with adorable family photos for three-and-a-half decades, [...]

by Eddie Pipkin Have you ever planned an event that went completely off the rails?  Of course you have.  We all have.  For those of us who started out in youth ministry, we have a [...]

by Eddie Pipkin Image by 1tamara2 from Pixabay I was reading about an emerging design trend for 2025 that sounded like something I could embrace: a concept called “pretty-ugly.”  It’s not about intentionally [...]

by Eddie Pipkin Like everybody else, I am susceptible to clicking on those listicle articles.  You know the ones.  It’s an article that’s structured as a list: “Five Keys to Financial Independence” or “Ten Clues [...]

Image by Geordie from Pixabay It’s always a challenge to write a seasonal blog.  That’s because you do it every year, and everybody else is doing the same thing thematically, too.  And most [...]

by Eddie Pipkin Image by Olga Fil from Pixabay I was checking out National Public Radio’s excellent resource, “Life Kit,” and the featured broadcast article was all about techniques for finding missing things.  [...]