by chetcromer | Jun 5, 2025 | Journals
If You Could Read My Mind: From Late-Night Thoughts to AI Songwriting A couple days ago, a line kept echoing in my head: “If you could read my mind…” Not in a spooky way, and not even in the shame-laced way we often think of that idea. What haunted me was something...
by chetcromer | Jun 3, 2025 | Journals
I’ve taken to poetry this year (ai-assisted, yes), and have made it a thing to write poems for MaKenna and one of her friends before their sporting events. Sometimes silly, sometimes not… but today I got my own poem from them. And it felt great. Not just...
by chetcromer | May 28, 2025 | Journals
Once upon a pew, I sat in silence. Not because I didn’t believe. Not because I had it all figured out. But because my hallelujah felt too hard to say. It was sometime last year that I first heard Brandon Lake and Jelly Roll’s “Hard to Fight Hallelujah.” I remember...
by chetcromer | May 27, 2025 | Software and Tech
Supercharging Development with Cursor AI and Visual Studio Plus: Downloadable Keyboard Shortcut Guide I’ve been diving deeper into AI-assisted development lately, and one tool that’s stood out—especially when paired with Visual Studio—is Cursor AI. It’s more than just...
by chetcromer | May 25, 2025 | Journals
When Your Gifts Are Silenced In Part 1, I shared how a place that once felt like home—especially in youth ministry—can slowly become unfamiliar. How subtle shifts, unspoken decisions, and relational distance can leave you feeling like an outsider in a space where you...