My family’s annual trip to Ormond Beach, Florida exists on its own plane. The weeks and months before and after it are filled with responsibilities. We mind calendars and lists and activities, and they dictate where we need to be and for how long, and what we need to do while we’re there. We attendContinue reading “A Week Outside Reality”
Author Archives: Jeff Nelson
Five Ways to Battle Writer’s Block
Whether I’m working on a book, a blog post, a sermon, or an article for work, writer’s block is inevitable: I sit down to write something, staring at a blank page, and feeling like there’s nothing. No ideas, no energy, nothing. It happens to every writer. For some it’s a near-constant affliction. Others have comeContinue reading “Five Ways to Battle Writer’s Block”
Mental Chemists
I have a deep love of books. I love reading them, making lists of them to read, taking notes from them (and sometimes in them), and chewing on the ideas that I’ve read. Every time we take in new information from a book, we mix them with what we already know. Sometimes the result isContinue reading “Mental Chemists”