Chris Hughes
My BBQ Pilgrimage Day 2 (Part 1: The Holy Land)
Welcome back to Day 2 of my travel adventures/BBQ pilgrimage in Austin, Texas. If you checked out Monday's post, you already know the...
top of page
CHRIS HUGHES
CHRIS HUGHES WRITES
Telling stories with words and a camera
Home: Welcome
Search
Chris Hughes
Feb 21, 20238 min read
What is Texas-style BBQ? Also, Why Texas BBQ?
Hey there! Welcome back to the travel blog for my BBQ pilgrimage to Austin, Texas. In my first post, I talked about what inspired this...
39 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Feb 20, 20238 min read
My BBQ Pilgrimage Day 1 (or "If you're gonna go to Austin")
Bear with me here — this is my attempt at "travel blogging." All this week I am on a BBQ pilgrimage to what some consider to be the...
53 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Feb 3, 20235 min read
3 Great Books I Read in 2022
I've written a few times about my desire to get back to reading. I have some friends who are prodigious readers these days — some who can...
24 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Oct 7, 20227 min read
Five Things Friday Vol. 4
Hey friends and other human beings! And you thought you had to wait a long time for Vol. 3!! This week, I am back with another edition of...
47 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
May 13, 20226 min read
Five Things Friday Vol. 3
Hey friends and other human beings! It's been a little (read: quite a long) bit of a hiatus but I am back with another edition of Five...
52 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Nov 12, 20215 min read
The Stole From His Mama
To all that has been, thanks. To all that shall be, yes. - Dag Hammaskjold Sometimes, I think it can be easy to forget why I got into...
178 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Sep 3, 20215 min read
Five Things Friday Vol. 2
Hey friends and other human beings! We're back with another (two in a row!) edition of Five Things Friday. This is a list of five things...
44 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Aug 27, 20215 min read
Five Things Friday
Hey friends and other human beings! I've been busy (of course) and have been out of the habit of blogging these days. I want to begin...
48 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Mar 25, 20215 min read
My Worst Birthday Ever
It was the worst birthday I can remember. A week before, the whole world seemed to shut down. I attended a meeting at work where we...
38 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Mar 25, 20212 min read
12 Books I Want to Read in 2021
My compulsion for catchy titles wants so badly to make this “21 Books I Want to Read in 2021”. But alas, for the past two years I have...
15 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Mar 25, 20214 min read
Ordinary Magic
You won’t believe it and strange as it sounds Extraordinary magic follows you around And the camera can’t catch it You won’t see it in...
5 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Mar 9, 20215 min read
Two Zero Two Zero
As 2020 comes to a close, I’ve seen a number of friends trying their best to make sense of 2020, to put a little bit of shine on what has...
3 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Mar 18, 20196 min read
Magic
We believe magic is everywhere because it is everywhere – the soil, the stars, the bugs we dig up in the dirt, the winged things we see...
8 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Nov 6, 20184 min read
Voting Matters
There are many reasons why I believe in the power of voting. One is because several years ago, I was out campaigning with my friend Kolby...
13 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Oct 12, 20175 min read
Leaving Birmingham
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first...
8 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Sep 6, 20175 min read
When the KKK Comes to My Town
I really don’t know where to start with the recent events in Charlottesville. In fact, I’ve had so much trouble sorting through all of it...
3 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Jan 20, 20175 min read
Thanks A Lot, Obama
Thanks a lot, Obama. The phrase started out as an expression of Republican rage against the policies of the President. But as it was...
5 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Mar 11, 20165 min read
The Body of Christ, The Center of Existence
Well, toward morning the conversation turned on the Eucharist, which I, being the Catholic, was obviously supposed to defend. Mrs....
2 views0 comments
Chris Hughes
Feb 1, 20165 min read
Sabbath Rest
Sabbath rest is, in my opinion, the most difficult practice of all Jewish and Christian practices. For so many years, I’ve said “Oh I’ll...
2 views0 comments
Home: Blog2
bottom of page