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I am so blessed to announce that my second book, Hard Love, is coming out this summer! But you need to read Hard Knocks: Memoir of a Small Moment (If you haven’t already done so) because Hard Love picks up right where Hard Knocks leaves off, literally. Hard Knocks is available on Amazon, wipfandstock.com andContinue reading “Hard Love: A California Memoir”

I know I left my readers hanging at the end of Hard Knocks: Memoir of a Small Moment, but my second book, Hard Love, is due the be released by my publisher, http://www.wipfandstock.com, by the end of spring, beginning of summer. Thank you for your patience! 2                                                                  Day Labor San Clemente is a little beachContinue reading “For Brittney Allyse (@badabingy), one of my faithful readers, Chapter 2-Day Labor, from Hard Love: A California Memoir.”

Several years ago, when I was an Elder at the Huntington Chapel, one of my co-elders said that I should write a sermon about living a healthy life filled with exercise, proper nutrition and overall spiritual and physical wellbeing. I guess because I’ve been lifting weights my whole life, eating writing and overcoming sin onContinue reading “Some of What God Says About Living a Healthy Lifestyle”

The following is an excerpt from my third book, Hard Faith: A Memoir, being published by http://www.wipfandstock.com and coming out this summer. It describes the start of our journey to Peru to be with our daughter as she recovers from being hit by a tourist bus. A portion of Chapter 16-Three Weeks in Peru. “TheContinue reading “There is Power in the Word”

“…While Lopez is a terse storyteller (as the book’s 133-page length attests), he displays a strong facility with language: “Poetry and timing; I always possessed mad poetry skills. As a child, I wrote ‘Ode to a Bathtub,’ a haunting lament so full of sorrow that it almost persuaded my mother to relinquish me from myContinue reading “Kirkus Review of Hard Knocks”

“For the word of God is alive and active; sharper than any double edged sword it penetrates, even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and the attitudes of the heart.” Hebrews 4:12 Hard Knocks is slowly making its way through the Federal Bureau of Prisons. I pray that moreContinue reading “Hard Knocks-Reviews From Prison”

My heart is light and heavy at the same time. I am sad that John is no longer here but rejoice in the knowledge that he is with Our Lord in Heaven. Chapter 13                                                             One at a Time             God instructed me to witness to the hard core, one at a time. What’s hardcore? It’s easyContinue reading “A Christmas Story for Johnny C-An excerpt from Chapter 13 of Hard Faith”