about me
Beginning as a self-taught programmer, avid reader, poetry enthusiast, preacher’s kid, and sometime philosopher, I have been privileged to watch an interesting and varied career emerge as God’s blessings, good teachers, good parents, and my efforts have been shaped together. I’ve taught for several years during grad school, travelled to Europe as Graduate Assistant to Baylor Study Abroad, and taught for three years in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi, Japan. I’m finishing a PhD in English. (see my CV for details.)
Upon completion of the doctorate, I hope to find a good teaching post for several years, building my church home and creating opportunities to travel abroad, especially to Japan, where I hope to live and to bring others from home (sending their counterparts to study/live in the States!) in the long-term future.
The Gift
There is no long dark night
in this soul, only dawning day,
a day which dawns too soon—Awake to light too bright for mortal eyes
We blink, and life eternal slips away
Beyond horizons farther back each day
Until we learn to watch each morning rise
With looks of longing and uplifting cries
To one who hears our sadness; the delay
Is less a waiting than the pause we pray
Will pass, in which we live in pilgrim’s guise.
I long to be at home along the way,
And yet I long for discontent so deep
That nothing I can see could bring on sleep,
Could spare me from this message I convey–
And so each restless night my true heart lies
Awake, and when he gives me sleep I’ll rise.PGE 5-17-2007
