The Dawn of a New Era

Please don't tell Thomas Kinkade we're using this image.

Hello! Let me state up front this is not Donald Miller. This may be confusing for many of you. Please bear with me.

If you've ever written a blog — and I'm sure the vast majority of you have — you know it's a bit of work. You need to have interesting thoughts, and then you have to type them on a computer, and then you have to do an image search for a witty picture…it's not the most difficult thing in the world, but it's tough to maintain constant production. Now, imagine you're Don, and you write books for a living, so every sentence you punch into WordPress is potentially a sentence you don't put in a book. Now imagine you are a cactus wearing a cowboy hat! See? Imagination can be fun.

Anyway, Don asked me recently if I'd like to cover a couple blog posts for him every week, and I agreed because I like helping out where I can.

Hi, I'm Jordan Green. You may remember me from such things as "Don's roommate in Million Miles in a Thousand Years", or as the guy who runs this site. I am NOT the 3-star shooting guard prospect who signed with Texas A&M, though I have similar hops. A few more things about me:

I grew up in Portland, Oregon, and lived with Don for about three years. Then, three years ago, I got married and promptly moved to Phoenix, Arizona. I will likely move back to Portland in nine months, give or take. As a native Portlander, I fervently support the Trail Blazers, the Oregon Ducks, and the Timbers.
I have a two year-old daughter named Lana, who is absurdly adorable.
I have worn Chaco sandals almost exclusively for the last seven years, even in the winter in Oregon.
I write a weekly television column for the Tucson Weekly, and co-wrote a book titled Besides the Bible , which has sold well over 2.3 million copies.*
I am right-handed.

Please! Do not flee! Hear me out!

Here's how this will work: on certain days, I will be posting content. This content may be in the form of excerpts from Don's books. It might be accounts of people living out positive story elements in their lives. It may be recipes for Argentine grilled tri-tip (seriously, that chimichurri sauce is AMAZING). My favorite part, though, is we will also feature guest posts from a wide variety of writers, some of whom you will know! Will Stephen King be one of them? Barbara Kingsolver? Unpublished works from David Foster Wallace? No. Sorry to get your hopes up about that.

If you're fists are balled as you stamp your feet and cry, "NO! I ONLY WANT TO READ DON'S BLOG POSTS!", that's fine. Just avoid this place on the days we have guests. Problem: solved. Also, I would hate to see how you react in the face of real adversity.

One more thing: my opinions do not necessarily reflect the far more thoughtful and well-articulated opinions of this blog's owner. I really am honored to have a chance to write for you all. Let the great experiment begin!

* – Actual sales numbers not verified.

The Dawn of a New Era is a post from: Donald Miller's Blog