About

Welcome to my world.

Caspar (the Dad)

I’m just one dad trying to find the answers to life’s persistent questions.

Besides that, I write. At least, for now. I write mostly on-line stuff, which you can read, if you want to, by clicking on any of the sites in the sidebar. Other writing that I’ve done, the kind you might find in print, I’ve done as a ghostwriter. So yes, I’m Caspar the ghostwriter. And no, I can’t tell you what I’ve written for other people.

Before I was a writer, I was a pastor for 20 years. Now I’m the pastor’s husband, which is actually a pretty good gig. I get to bake pies for the church dinners, serve tea, and I don’t have to be in charge of anything.

Before I was a pastor I was a student working and borrowing my way through college and graduate school. And before that I was an Rotary exchange student to Brazil. And before that I was a malcontent teenager. And before that…. Well, you get the idea.

Brooke (the Mom)

My wife, Brooke, is a United Methodist pastor. We’ve been together for 9 years. She’s smart. And beautiful. And funny. And nice. Plus, she’s my proofreader.

Besides being a pastor, she’s trying to energize what’s left of the Christian Left among the Methodists and Presbyterians in upstate New York. It’s not easy. For one thing, most of upstate New York is chock-full of rabid Republicans and Tea Partiers. For another, the level of apathy among Methodists and Presbyterians tends to be pretty high. So I try to be as supportive as I can, which usually means I tag along to be her tech-support guy.

Silas (the Kid)

Together we’re doing the best we can to raise the kid, who is 8. Dr. Phil once said something like, “The parents’ job is to get make sure their kids make it alive and reasonably intact to age 18.” We’re 1/3 there if we’re going by Dr. Phil, but then others tell us that you’re never really done. So which advice we live by depends on what kind of day its been.

Other regular characters include: the dog, the 3 cats, and the grandparents (those would be my parents).

That’s Caspar World. I don’t expect I’ll ever finally have the answers to life’s persistent questions. It’s really more about what happens in along the way.