misfits Archives - Joel Rieves

I… Am… A… Nerd

The past week, I feel like I’ve been on the edge of burning out on the blogging thing. A couple of days ago, I started 3 different pieces before I finally found one that didn’t bore the hell out of me. That’s not to say I was excited about it, though; only that I was […]

I Take it Back

Yesterday was one of those days. I dropped my phone and cracked the screen, found out getting a trailer hitch installed on my car was a lot harder than I thought and, oh yeah, agitated quite a few folks here at But Not Yet. Last night, I was starting to feel a little beat up […]

People Who…

A couple of days ago, I got spend some time with one of my favorite people on the planet: my brother from another mother, Hugh Hollowell. Most of it was spent at Cafe Helios over coffee. I know that sounds stereotypical, a couple of Christian hipsters talking about Jesus stuff at a hipster haven, sipping the […]

Words Matter

This morning, I was reading Kimberly Knight’s blog on Patheos. Today’s entry started out “Words matter.” The word that mattered in this case was “sissies”. To put in context, she was talking about a Lenten devotional her church is using this season. In the Ash Wednesday entry, the author said the Ash Wednesday service was “Worship […]

Hollywood Blondes

The first real, out-in-the-world job I ever had was loading trucks at the local Coca-Cola bottling plant the summer I turned 16. Oh, I’d had jobs before that, working for a local tobacco farmer (from which I learned I had no desire to be a farmer), cutting grass for people in my neighborhood and other […]