A group of people sitting in a large auditorium, with a rock band performing on stage beside screens reading "Holy is Our God"

The Large Church Conundrum

I recently read a friend’s debut novel, which takes place in a Seattle megachurch. While I have no doubt that facets of it were exaggerated for literary effect, it still made me even warier of megachurches. All larger congregations, really.  And before you get nervous, this is not going to Read more

An apple pie on a cooling rack next to a rolling pin and bown of flour

You’ll Never Bake Alone

“If you wish to bake an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe.” I love that quote from Carl Sagan. At its most basic, I find it does a good job of illustrating my personal blessing-and-a-curse ADHD tendency to get caught up looking for connections, causes, and Read more

Why did I decide to rekindle a business idea as an open source project?

When I started working on Drover in 2018, I assumed the path forward was the venture capital-funded way of most tech startups. But with time I became aware of a broadening gap between what I wanted to build and the way a tech company was supposed to behave. I tucked it away as a crazy idea for a while, but it was like an itch that I could never quite free myself of. I needed to do something about it. So here goes. I’ve decided to build Drover as an open source project, with the hope of making it a nonprofit if needed to handle managing it.