Ben and I came across the border at Niagra Falls today. The border patrol officer took our passports, thumbed through them and asked us what we’d been doing in Canada.
Ben told him I’d been speaking at a conference, chuckled, and then told the officer he’d only come along to make sure I got where I… 
Series Archive: ‘Stories From The Road’
Entrance Exam
The Hard Life Of A Solo Soft Rock Star
It’s just me and Ben on the road.
No band. No drummer, bass player, electric guitar guy, keyboardist. Just me and Ben.
No gear. No speakers, amps, drumkits. No merchandise banner, table cloths. Just me and Ben.
Occassionally some well-intentioned soul will say something like, “Hey, why don’t you get a band? And a bus?…
Your Weekend Was Boring
Your weekend was boring. I don’t care what you did, compared to mine, your weekend wasn’t interesting at all. Not even a little bit.
I went to Laurel, Maryland. Wait for it, there’s more.
I went to Laurel, Maryland to speak about poverty in three church services (one through a Spanish translator), play a concert…
Feeling It
Some guys ignore their wife and kids by working long hours away from home. I’m a bigger loser than that. I ignore my family while I’m in the same room with them.
I spend a lot of time inside my own head, lost in thought about this or that, building rhymes or melodies or mulling over…
Pity The Rockstar
I have a lot of flaws. One of my biggest is envy. I don’t envy salaries, houses, cars, phones or guitars. I envy the guy who plays to 5,000 people every night. It’s not the money those crowds spend at the merchandise table that I wish for – though I could sure put it to…
Radical Enough?
I met with a film maker from Los Angeles yesterday who’s interested in making a documentary about my family’s transition from bloat to a somewhat simpler life, the connection between simplicity and generosity and Jesus and the rub that even the smallest lifestyle and theological changes causes sometimes with culture at large and family and…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
