About

Hi, I’m Blake Thompson. 🙃

I live in Oxford, Mississippi, and this is my long-running corner of the internet: notes on life, faith, books, technology, Oxford, work, culture, and whatever else I keep noticing. I’ve been writing here, off and on, since 2003.

I’m trying to get back into the habit of writing more regularly, mostly because I miss it. Some posts will be thoughtful. Some will probably be about something completely ordinary that caught my attention. That’s more or less how this site has always worked.

I grew up in Amory, graduated from Mississippi State, spent a number of years working in local church ministry, and moved to Oxford in 2008. Yep, an MSU grad in the heart of Rebel country. These days I work in real estate, host the Beyond the Square podcast, and spend a fair amount of time reading, running, thinking about faith, and paying attention to what’s changing around Oxford.

I’m married to Bev, and we have four kids, which means life is quieter than it was when they were little in some ways and not remotely quieter in others.

This site has followed me through a lot of different seasons. There are posts here from when I was a young dad, a youth minister, a church staff member, a new Oxford resident, a gadget nerd buying early iPhones, and a guy apparently very concerned about winter. Some of those posts make me laugh now. Some make me cringe a little. A few still sound exactly like something I’d write today.

But I’m leaving that archive intact. That’s part of the point.

If you’re new here, start with the archives or the Friday Five. If you’ve been around since the old blogging days, welcome back. 🙂