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About Me

I am a Bakersfield,CA native who likes to go shopping at thrift stores & cruise around town on my lil' blue Vespa. I lead worship at Calvary Chapel Visalia, write songs, read books (yes, books), take pictures, draw, & travel in my freetime...which isn't near enough. My personal skills include (& yet are not limited to) Juggling, Yo-Yo trix, Pac-Man, & a few musical instruments (including piano, guitar, harmonica, vibraslap, percussion, & now mandolin). I am a Taylor guitars enthusiast & was the worldwide posterboy for the "See You at the Pole" prayer movement in 1999. I'm a Spelling bee champion...so don't go trying to spell-check my page. I enjoy a well decorated room, the company of good friends, a home-cooked "Messi-can" meal, airstream trailers, & a quality cup o' joe. I tend to be rather opinionated & enjoy good debates over controversial topics. Shoot me a line or 5...

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Welllll... I would love to meet The Apostle, Paul. I got my middle name from him. It would be cooler than the other side of the pillow to sail out on a Missionary journey with Paul. I really want to draw cartoons with Walt Disney, "jam in the name of the Lord" with Bob Marley, perform at the Iridium club with Les Paul, lay hands on a sick person with Smith Wigglesworth, swap jokes with Brian Regan, discuss faith & doubt over cigars & brandy with C.S. Lewis, absorb wisdom from King Solomon, get a tatoo from Sailor Jerry, take a guitar lesson from Stevie Ray Vaughn, rock on the front porch in The Blue Ridge Mts. with Billy Graham, walk to Bethlehem with Joseph (Jesus' earthly daddy) & get the unmentioned details of that original journey straight from his mouth, select new Motown hits with Barry Gordy, go to a Luau with Shag & Gil Elvgren (my two favorite Artists), co-write a new song with Paul McCartney, travel Africa with Bono, ask my Grandpa Dave what my dad was "really like " when he was a little boy, swap stories with Donald Miller, worship our Creator with David Crowder, fry-me-up some Pollo with Colonel Sanders, play catch with Nolan Ryan, eat a PB&B sammich with ELVIS, attend a costume party with Johnny Depp, design an All-Star shoe with Chuck Taylor, stitch up a shirt with Ben Sherman, fist-fight Brad Pitt (Fight Club style), lay down on my back & gaze at the night sky with St. Francis of Assissi, discuss life & the current state of our nation with Abraham Lincoln, discuss Salvation with Bob Dylan, invent something with Benjamin Franklin, write poems with Dr.Seuss, play chess with Napoleon, race Vespas with Audrey Hepburn &....& spend all of Eternity doing stuff with Jesus...But the two of us have already met.

My Blog

Going Home...

Well, I believe Thomas Wolfe nailed it when he wrote "You Can't Go Home Again". I've been back in California for the past week...stuffing my porky jawls full of Dewar's Ice Cream & some oh so fabulous...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:04:00 GMT

Stepping out in Faith.

So I quit my job yesterday. I typed up my 2 week notice & thanked my employers for the opportunity they'd given me. To be completely honest, I second guess my decisions a good part of the time. Pa...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:31:00 GMT

Answers to prayer

So I find myself writing to 'yall with an attitude of gratitude.  I've spent the last few days at the hospital with my family here in Asheville, NC...waiting. My mom's surgery has been a success ...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 09:15:00 GMT