by kandersen | Apr 30, 2020 | Real Life Stories
Press play for an audio transcript of this blog post. Hello friends. This blog post is going to have a bit of a different tone than my posts normally do. I usually try to post very professional, more formal, long-form publishable articles that I sometimes work...
by kandersen | Feb 29, 2020 | Christian Living, Real Life Stories
I looked directly into his eyes and immediately looked away. He was homeless. I was scared. I grew up safe and sheltered in the suburbs of Chicago. All of the evils of the world were only abstract concepts to me because I had little personal experience with those that...
by kandersen | Feb 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
By the point that you are reading this, ringing in the New Year is just a memory. You have since gotten back to the daily grind and sunk back into the mundaneness of everyday life. It’s been a whole month since then! Any new year’s resolutions you have set have likely...
by kandersen | Nov 28, 2019 | Christian Living, Real Life Stories
What if Thanksgiving was never meant to be what we’ve made it into? Are you the person who dreads the Thanksgiving meal because of the conflict or drama or judgement that happens every time your family is together? Are you the student who’s been gone at college...
by kandersen | Oct 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
I live down the street from a yellow building that is barred up with a chain along the gate. It looks like it used to be an apartment building, but now it looms between two modern buildings looking like it hasn’t been lived in for years. The yellow paint on the...