Faithful Nest

Living faithful in a faithless world

  • Don’t call me yellow…

    or chicken. Did you just call me chicken? Chicken? I’ll show you chicken. The comedy shtick has held up throughout time. When someone is challenged, they rise to it, egged…


  • 100 days?!

    After accepting the challenge mentally this year, I’m trying to cut my way through my own apathy.


  • Peace

    The Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) in Chicago is currently exhibiting Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind. You have until February 22 to experience this display of her work. After…


  • A different kind of marathon

    Turning the clock back (ahem) a bunch of years, you would find me out running. Learning to listen to my body and preparing it for a marathon came in the…


  • New Adventures

    Poised at the top of a new year, I am looking at a confluence of roads.


  • Zeal

    That is NOT my word of the year for 2026. That is actually organize, but don’t tell my family. They will laugh and I will loose interest. Zeal is my…


  • Ugly Sweaters

    Take a look at my second to last WIR post (Writer in Residence). It has been a fun trip and learning experience to be the 19th ArtRoot WIR. Finishing up…


  • Tribes

    — Christy Hoff In this season of gratitude and joy, I am thankful for my tribes. I belong to a writing group, an artist collective, and a bike club (or…


  • Rolling Forward

    Want to leave a legacy for this next generation? Don’t complain about them staring at their phones unless you’ve actually tried to give them an alternative. What do you feel…


  • Questions…

    Take a look at this weeks Writer-In-Residence post. Maybe even stop in and say hi. While you are there I can autograph one of my books for you to take…


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