How This Book Got Its Name
Several summers ago (2001) I took my family on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada to Thousand Island Lake. It took us three days to get there. We camped on the north side of the lake with great views of Banner and Ritter Peaks.
Near sunset one day a guy came up and asked if he could take my picture as I sat by the fire. He snapped it and as quickly as he left, I forgot the incident.
I came back to Ventura from that vacation refreshed. A couple years later I began teaching worldviews to some of the kids in the senior high group at my church.
Then, on June 22, 2004, I got a call from my wife saying that my picture was on the front page of the Outdoors section of the L.A. Times. Skeptical at first, when I got home I saw it was true!
Now the plot thickens: the caption at the bottom of the picture said, “Blah, Blah, Blah.” The accompanying article observed that often people go into the wilderness to get away from civilization, and yet bring all their beeping, squawky high-tech gadgets with them.
My kids loved the “Blah, Blah, Blah” part because they’re always teasing me about lecturing too much, especially about worldviews.
After I signed the book contract with Bethany House, a new title was needed. Around the dinner table one night my 16-year-old son, no doubt wearied by all the table talk he had had to endure about worldviews, said, “Why don’t you just call it Blah, Blah, Blah?”
And so it was.
