• Nightwalking

    I like breakfast. I like it so much I started making an app to help me find biscuits and gravy. I talk about biscuits and gravy so much I rank higher than Hardee’s.com. I own the hashtag #passmeabiscuit on social media. One of my favorite restaurants is Lambert’s Cafe “Home of the Throwed Rolls.” But I gave…

  • The Only Way Out is Down

    Sometimes I wonder what life would be like if it was more like Minecraft. I wake up alone in the middle of a foreign, undeveloped terrain full of wild animals and scary beasts. My only tools are my fists. I’ve got 12 hours until sunset. Sometimes I fantasize about escaping through tunnels. When I was young…

  • Between a Rock and a Hard Place

    If you’ve ever found yourself in a sticky situation where both choices are hard, I can relate. This can happen both with emotional choices, financial choices, but also with physical objects. I once worked for a furniture store. One day while delivering a couch I found my head stuck between the bottom of the couch…

  • Lean on Me

    It was an unusually warm December night in 1998. It was our first semester at Kentucky Christian College and a couple friends from high school had come to visit. After dinner, in the pitch of darkness, we all piled into my white, 1984 Caprice Classic, and drove out to Grayson Lake, which was a place…

  • All I Really Need to Know About Process Management I Learned Washing Dishes

    The first job I ever had was in during high school at a fancy restaurant called Heiskell’s Restaurant and Lounge. I washed dishes 3 nights a week (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday). Although I worked there with several of my friends, it was still one of the worst jobs of my life. For 3 years I…

  • A Letter to Chris after Leaving First Merchants

    9-11-2011 Things have been a little rough lately, but life doesn’t stop throwing you curve balls just because you change careers. Rather than focusing on the negatives though, which is easy to do, I’d rather tell you about the good things that have happened and what I hope will happen in the future. I have…

  • The Story of Us

    I started out in Kansas City on the east side of the Missouri where I grew till I was eight and in not so much a hurry My wife had just turned six when I moved out to Indiana Born and raised a Tiptonite she was a little bannana’s When I was twelve I moved…

  • Explaining the 2015 Internet to 1995 Me

    Dear Erich from 1995, I can listen to whatever I want whenever I want. When you’re 20 you’ll get excited about being able to share MP3 files with complete strangers on the Internet, but in 2015 music is streamed over the Internet whenever I want. Go find some music to play. I’ll wait. Get the…

  • If You’ll Have Me

    The living room glowed with excitement. They had bought bagels and cream cheese. It was a historic moment. Two weeks ago I had walked into my job, poured a cup of coffee, and been escorted out the door. Now I’m sitting on a couch. As Matt went around the room he mentioned each of the…