Three books are at the center of my earliest reading memories.
Goodnight Moon was the first book I “read,” having it read to me so many times I had the words memorized. “Goodnight nobody” still makes me laugh.
Richard Scarry’s Cars ...
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The Musical World of Kaylea
In a house on Joyce Street just a few miles north of Waco, Texas, I wrote my very first songs.
While I was in seminary, wrestling with Greek and Hebrew vocabulary words, Jamie worked at the preschool at First Baptist Church of Waco. She ...
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Wanna Play Catch?
I have a new glove.
The first day of December 2019, a friend, who will remain nameless, texted me and told me to check my email. This is a friend who knows I can’t check my email on my flip phone. I had been gone for the morning writing, ...
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Happy Birthday, Mrs. Rhodes
Sandy Rhodes was my 5th grade teacher at Delaware Elementary. I was in her class the year the Royals won their first World Series. I’m fairly certain my sister and I were the only students in the entire school cheering for the Royals over ...
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The Cover
Coming September 2020.
Thank you Andy and Brandon and Marko and Zondervan! ...
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