Personal and/or Geeky
Silly, serious, and in between, here are some posts from my personal life and interests that don’t quite fit anywhere else.
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I made a new welcome video.

Here’s a new welcome—to this website and to my new YouTube channel.
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You asked…I answered.

In April 2018, I hosted my first public Facebook Live “Ask Me Anything” Q&A. People had a lot of great questions, personal and otherwise. Check out the video to see how it went.
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Ask Me Anything: Facebook Live Q&A tonight
As previously announced to my mailing list, tonight (April 5) at 9pm Eastern, I’m hosting a Facebook Live Q&A. I hope you can make it! To join, just visit my Facebook page.
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When life gets you down.

Here are things I do when I’m having a rough time. Maybe some of these will be helpful to you.
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My post-GCN life

After 16 years running the nonprofit I founded, my life went in a new direction. Here’s the letter I wrote to my friends in early 2018.
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An important message.
Friends, It is with tremendous sorrow that I must share this formal statement, which is going out on GCN’s channels today. I have known about this since May but haven’t been able to speak about it, which is why I’ve been silent on social media. I wish I could comment on it further, but I…
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Rules for calling introverts.

I’m an introvert, and I have a love-hate relationship with my phone. Here’s a humorous (but true) post about how to use the phone with people like me.
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My mom just died. Here’s what you should say.

A few days after my mom’s death, I wrote this to help my friends know how to support me. Everyone grieves differently, but maybe this list will help you next time someone close to you has a tragedy and you aren’t sure what to do or say.
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Okay, I’m slightly obsessed with Clue.

So I have a geeky board game collection…
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The day I met Rachel Held Evans.
Okay, funny story. I flew into Nashville yesterday to do some media interviews. My publisher took me to a local TV station, where a guy from the station met with me and took me up to the studio to record a couple of local programs. As we walked, he said, “It’s so funny you’re doing…



