World of McCool

The day before the Solstice, I knew what I needed to do. It wasn’t going to be easy, but it had been laid out before me as plain as could be. It was time for a purification. Laurie and Phillip came home from the Ukraine that same night, exhausted from a long […]

I have added a new section the webpage, which I hope at least some readers have the gumption to explore. It is about mysteries, but there’s more to it than most of the sections on this site. The mystery section is a mystery unto itself; an elaborate puzzle that I am putting together […]

Has anyone else been going out and looking at that moon in its fullness? It’s waxing now, but tonight it still looked pretty full. What a thing, the moon is. I’m wondering if anyone else thinks about it very much. I sure do, and I’ve learned some very interesting things about […]

I was delighted to see that my book arrived today. It looks pretty nice, I must say, and I can’t get over how strange it felt to look through it. It’s very exciting, and now that I’ve approved the demo copy, I’m ready to start selling them. I’ve ordered a bulk shipment, […]

Yesterday my mom came home from church and mentioned that it was our friend Randy Garner’s birthday, and that there was a party out at their house that night. I’ve known the Garners my whole life, so of course I wanted to go. Randy and Susan and their daughters Courtney and Brittany were […]

An old friend of mine got married last weekend. The Lauren’s and my family have known each other for as long as I’ve been alive, and our mom’s are really good friends. Lauren’s older brother David was my good friend in high school. I was in the praise band with him at […]

Doubt crept into my heart like a trickle of water slowly soaks through dry soil. How the hell was I going to make this work? Had I let go of my thoughts and listened deeply, I would have remembered that it’s never I who makes things work. But my faith was shaken. […]

I sit in some trendy coffee shop, contemplating my next move. I came to Albuquerque knowing I had no way home, figuring I could hitchike. Now I’m thinking that will take too long to get me back before the 11th, so I’m looking for other options. I’m down to calling people up […]

I just posted an article I read on trees on the Natural World page. Here’s an excerpt:
“Certain dimensions of existence do mean something and can’t be lost in the hall of mirrors that is relativity and post-postmodernism or whatever fleeting intellectual fashion next blunts our ability to see the world coherently. Trees […]

A while back I went down to the church for the Sunday service, where I ran into tons of old friends who are in town from college. I was thrilled to be invited to play basketball up in the gym after lunch, something I hadn’t done in years. My friend Jonathan and his […]