My good friend and mentor, Charlie Kelley, passed away last week. I wrote about him in my last post knowing it was only a matter of days until he would move to his eternal home. And now, I no longer have a classic mentor…one who is one generation ahead of me, one who has seen...Read More

A few weeks ago, I received an unusual phone call from my dear friend and mentor, Charlie. Would I be willing to take over the mentoring of a young man he had befriended the past eight years? It was an extraordinary request, as I had never met the man. Blind date mentoring?  An arranged friendship?...Read More

Luke had Obi-Wan, the Von Trapp kids had Sister Maria, Frodo had Gandalf and Harry Potter had Dumbledore. Who do you have? Who is your mentor? Who is walking with you through this season of change…this land between…this liminal space? Over the last month I’ve been thinking and writing about the lonely and confusing seasons...Read More