God DON’T save the Queen

I had the craziest dream the other night. For some reason unbeknownst to me, I was moments away from taking the stage as the singer for the legendary band Queen. Even now as I’m awake, I can remember the uneasy feeling caused by:

  1. Will I remember all the lyrics?
  2. Is my voice good enough? I’m not a singer! 
  3. How can I pretend I have charisma? 

I also remember there was a guy standing nearby, Marc Martel. I knew he would be a better man to take the stage in the role I was somehow filling. You see, Marc can sound exactly like Freddie Mercury and if you didn’t already know, Marc’s voice was one you heard in the Queen biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody.” So yeah, he’s MUCH better at this than me. 

I have no idea what this dream means and most likely won’t be looking into it any further. I just thought it was funny. Also, Marc is awesome! The title of this post doesn’t mean anything beyond this: if I’m the lead singer of Queen, please let the band fade into obscurity quickly 🙂

-Out of the Wilderness

High hopes amid widespread panic coronavirus cancellations

The frenzy this sickness has caused in the US is mind blowing. I mean, just check your Facebook feed and you’ll see that the majority of friends updates are about the widespread panic*… or toilet paper.

What I’m seeing on TV and hearing on the radio is about all the cancelled events, nationally and local. NCAA, golf, basketball, music festivals, conferences… there’s even Panic at the Disco**!


You know, I was in da club*** here in Nashville the other day to pick up a case of water (for normal reasons). Would you believe that people were buying water by the pallet!? I couldn’t believe what I was seeing and still can’t exactly piece together how the virus relates to a water shortage (or fear of a water shortage). With that said, it’s all coming back to me now***… I remember that Nashville does have a way of overreacting (*ahem* the gas shortage 10 years ago caused by fear of a gas shortage).

If you’re choosing to self-quarantine because of the spreading sickness, don’t worry, be happy****… I have high hopes it’ll all be over within a few months.

*the virus, not the band

**the band, not the virus

***Sam’s Club, no bottles full of bub

****in every life we have some trouble, when you worry you make it double

-Out of the Wilderness

Three Joe Biden moments no one’s talking about


In Joe Biden’s speech after winning more delegates on March 10th, there are three moments that should concern people about his cognitive health, his physical health, and the bigger picture. Check them out below…

Microexpressions (4:47)… in this clip, Joe Biden touches his face as he says, “…and it appears, although it’s a little premature, it appears that’s what we were able to do tonight,” referring to his momentum building with possible wins in Michigan, Missouri, and Mississippi, etc. Touching of one’s face could be a “tell” that they are lying or stressed about the information they’re delivering. Also note this is the ONLY time Joe touches his face in the entire 11-minute speech.

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No child left behind (6:40)… in this clip, he says, “Providing every child with access to good edruration.” Please, please, please click the link to watch the clip, it’s so odd, as if his teeth were about to fall out… again. After the gaffe, his wife wants to look over at her husband but also doesn’t want to draw more attention to what just happened, so she tries  to be as casual as possible as she turns her head towards him.

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A Trojan horse (10:19)… this clip shows Biden saying, “We’re on– close to the eve of St. Patrick’s Day.” A reminder that this speech was on on March 10th and St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th. If it were December 18th would you say we’re close to Christmas Eve? I guess we can let this one slide but I also thought it was funny the quote he proceeds to use from poet Seamus Heaney is a line referring to the Trojan War where the Greeks used a wooden horse to trick the Trojans, and thereby winning the Trojan War. Perhaps Biden is the Democrats Trojan horse. If he gets elected, the real powers behind him (*ahem* socialists??) show up to rule. That’s probably a stretch, though. 🙂

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What do you think about these moments in the 11-minute speech? Are they anything to be concerned about? Chime in below!

-Out of the Wilderness

Top 10 famous women who I am almost sure do NOT have the coronavirus

Breaking news, I am almost 99% positive that the following women from movies and TV and popular culture do NOT have the coronavirus. These are my top 10 favorite famous women who do NOT have the virus. Keep carrying on, you fine ladies! 

Dolly Parton. 

Kate Beckinsale.  

Brandi Carlile. 

Nicole Kidman. 

Robin Roberts. 

Sia. 

Mary Steenburgen.

Candace Owens. 

Drew Barrymore.

Ellen DeGeneres. 


Thanks for stopping by! 

-Out of the Wilderness

I’ve been to Atlanta, part 3

This post will conclude the Atlanta trip, and basically it’s a post that has information that I forgot to put in the other posts 🙂 If you’ve been following along, you already know how great this trip was. There was dancing. There was delicious food. There were meerkats. All of it was awesome.

Sunday morning we went to Louie Giglio’s church and it was such a memorable experience. Sometimes when you go to these big churches you might get lost in the lights and “show” of it all, and to be totally honest, I thought that might happen with us. But I was woefully mistaken. The worship was incredible. To be totally honest again, I thought, “OK, what I get from the sermon won’t… no, CAN’T… outshine the worship.” Then I was wrong again. Louie spoke about the spiral of sin and like one of my pastors here in Nashville says, I thought he must’ve been reading my journal. It was amazingly relevant to my life and something I needed to hear and be challenged by.

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Something else I need to mention because I haven’t yet… the games we played! Sequence Niece challenged us to a game of Sequence Garage Sale Mania and once again (because we’ve played this together before), I lost. I was so close to winning but Dancing Niece got the luckiest ‘detour’ card and made it to her home spot before me.

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The night we went out for Mexican food included a few games of pool. I’m the worst pool player but it was fun to play with both nieces.

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The trip wrapped up with a final dance at the Atlanta Convention Center, the home base of all things dance this weekend. My niece’s team won first place in a few categories for their last performance, and it also got 2nd overall. It was a really well-choreographed dance and I’m so proud of her!

Thanks for following along with my first trip to Atlanta. Hope you enjoyed the read and if you have any Atlanta experiences to share, comment below. Till next time…

-Out of the Wilderness