I’m a guy who brings a Nerf gun to a White Elephant gift exchange and walks home with a candle/potpourri bundle basket. It’s never failed. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy breathing inescapably thick plumes of Wild-Mountain-Berry-Solar-Eclipsed-Cinnamon-Mist just as much as the next guy. But would I rather be pelting the crap out of my kids with soft-tipped darts? You freakin’ bet. I want…
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Our church put out a Christmas EP earlier this month called Emmanuel (Love Has Won). The title track was written by a great dude, B.J. Bryant. Check it out here. I had the privilege of writing one of the other original songs on the EP. And had the greater privilege of hearing my wife sing it. You can have this privilege…
It was fun making this film with our lovely little actors. I use “fun” in the, we-shouldn’t-have-kept-them-up-past-the-emotional-stability-that-comes-with-bedtime-and-make-them-repeat-lines-they’re-not-familiar-with-while-forgetting-that-they-are-only-children-and-not-trained-actors-because-we’re-creating-art-for-crying-out-loud kind of way. Hope you like it.
Time. Who cares? My dad is smart. Growing up he always told me the secret to making a year longer. The unwritten key to fabricating time itself. He also told me the price. But when you are in high school or pressing on through your early 20s why would you care about more time anyway? You’re flush with the stuff.…
It’s there. Blinking. The thin vertical bar. ON OFF ON OFF It’s intimidating. For a while now I’ve had this Evernote titled ‘First post’. I would open it, read the title, and just watch the cursor flicker; challenging me to write something. What is the first thing you say to the world? Or, maybe more accurate, my immediate family members…