Keeping Things Stupid Simple
- May 13, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
The best advice I ever received about communicating was the acronym K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid!). I don’t always take this advice – which...
Help for Loneliness
- April 28, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
Several years ago, I was given an assignment from my mentor at the time. It seemed simple. It was not. I did it anyway.
He...
Life Together
- April 13, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
One of my quarantine books has been Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together. The book has been a friend to me throughout my adult life. We...
Beauty from Ashes
- March 31, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
It is true that some of the most beautiful writing, music, and story have come from the periods of our history when we experienced...
Love for Extroverts in the Age of Corona
- March 18, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
I really don’t want anyone’s pity out there, but this Corona Virus is tough on us extroverts, especially us extroverts whose love language is...
You Got Nothing
- February 18, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
Recently, I’ve come to realize that at least one of the reasons my daughter was put here on this earth was to point out...
The Day after MLK Day
- January 21, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
I was with some friends tonight for dinner. It’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and our conversation eventually drifted over to him.
A good thing.
We...
Get Up
- January 08, 2020
- by
- Ned Erickson
There is this great passage in I Kings when Elijah draws a line in the sand for the people of Israel and basically says....
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Advent Snuck Up On Me! [Day 1]
- December 02, 2019
- by
- Ned Erickson
It was an honor to be asked to be the first one to write for the EVERYDAY EXILES CHRISTMAS PROJECT. It was not the...
Getting Wet
- November 11, 2019
- by
- Ned Erickson
I have a friend who had a dream. In the dream he was zooming and zipping down a whitewater rapid. He had no life...