The dangers of being a fan
On Saturday morning I walked into the weekly men’s breakfast at my church wearing a t-shirt repping my daughter’s high school, whose mascot is the Eagles. I didn’t think anything about it honestly,...
View ArticleComing forth
I’ve learned a word since the new school year started: forthcoming. Like in a school’s “homecoming” but for a new school, when there’s no alumni to come home. It’s Megan’s first year in high school,...
View ArticleBreathing underwater
Is this my life? Am I breathing underwater? — Metric, “Breathing Underwater” I texted Christy the other day. “Parenting is exhausting.” Because it is. I used to think it was only during the school...
View ArticleThe party’s over
For the past couple of years I’ve struggled with what to do with this site. Do I keep it up, keep chugging away at it, keep using it as, what, my public journal? My Bible study? My witty yet...
View ArticleThe End. (Mostly)
Today Christy takes her last final exam of nursing school (her final final?). Next week she’ll have her official pinning ceremony and graduation and next month she’ll sit for the NCLEX exam to earn...
View ArticleIt is finished
When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. — John 19:30 I have a tendency to whine. A lot. Maybe not as much now as in the past,...
View ArticleWhen Chrome gets rusty
Eric Limer of Gizmodo recently wrote about why he had finally given up on Google Chrome and gone back to Firefox. “These days Chrome is bloated, slow, and constantly crashing on me,” he complained....
View ArticleFalling in
I don’t know how I feel about the word “introvert”. Introverted, extroverted, Type-A, melancholy, choleric, INTJ, ESTJ, ESPN, whatever. All ways we try to figure out how to measure each other, define...
View ArticleIn defense of Spotify
Taylor Swift recently made a lot of headlines for pulling all her music from Spotify, arguing that the streaming service was hurting album sales and essentially driving her into bankruptcy, killing...
View ArticleA time to mend
My mom is dying. In the last nine months she’s spent maybe a week total at home. The rest of the time has been spent moving from the hospital to a rehab center to a managed care facility and back to...
View ArticleNo coffee for squirrels
I have a confession to make. I’ve started another blog. Well, sorta. I’ve actually started a tumblr, which I don’t consider a “blog”, per se. But I guess technically it is. Anyway, you get the idea....
View ArticleThe new normal
Well, it’s a new school year, just like last year except completely different. The past two years, I’ve had one daughter in middle school, one daughter in elementary, and one wife in nursing school....
View ArticleFences and neighbors
We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: “Stay where you are until...
View Article40 years in the wilderness
Everybody drinks the water from the murky pool Surely as you think you’re well You know your belly aches Everybody learns religion at the blind man’s school Will you reach for heaven When the preacher...
View ArticleChecking out of checking in
Haven’t you heard? Check-in apps are sooo 2009. At least that seems to be the lesson learned first by Gowalla and now by Foursquare. You remember Gowalla, right? The Austin-based David to Foursquare’s...
View ArticleWhere in the world is…
There’s a new Expedia commercial in which a person is approached randomly on the street and asked where they would go if they could go anywhere in the world. But the catch is, they have to leave right...
View ArticleA house divided and the curtain torn
I’ve been angry and bitter all week. Disgusted, really. As the Supreme Court heard arguments in a couple of highly controversial cases involving same-sex marriage, people all over the country showed...
View ArticleHow accurate does ‘The Bible’ need to be?
Sunday is the premiere of The Bible on the History Channel, and it looks amazing. Described as a “10-hour docudrama”, the miniseries from Mark Burnett and Roma Downey recreates the biblical narrative...
View ArticleMartin Luther, social networker
As you probably know by now, I’ve been blogging my way through John Dyer’s From the Garden to the City, a book about the redeeming and corrupting powers of technology and how that impacts the Christian...
View ArticleMy ancestor the Pilgrim
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, probably the greatest holiday dedicated to the mass consumption of food ever. Except of course that it’s not really about the food, per se, but a time of, well, giving thanks....
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