Personal Interests

​I enjoy travel, whether it's exploring nearby parks or journeying to lands afar. I also like to go hiking regularly in my local woods and often take nature photos for fun.

​​Most of my recreation these days involves my family:  reading, cooking, playing games... going to plays and movies... walking, biking or playing ping pong. We have fun together.

On the trail at Waubonsie State Park in western Iowa

popsicle time! (Fort Worth, TX)

on a visit to Indianapolis

bike break (Bloomington, IN)

​I enjoy music and poetry, both personally and professionally. Visual arts like collage and glass mosaic have been occasional creative outlets as well.​ Here's a collage I did before seminary, expressing my sense of calling to the ministry, and more recently, my first glass project.

Like an ability or a muscle,
hearing your inner wisdom
is strengthened ​by doing it.  ​      ~ Robbie Gass

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.  ~ Edward Hopper​

Play is the exultation of the possible.  ​~ Martin Buber

Playing in the light tower's wash of colors, outside the Art Museum on the Indiana University campus.