Monthly Archives: January 2012

Halfway

Yesterday I only opened the topic I meant to address. Alan Knox mentioned on his blog some personal difficulty he is going through, commenting, “I’m just trying to share more of myself with you. You may not care, and you may not want to read this kind of post, and that’s fine. But, to me, sharing all of life is Read More


Altogether

Today I asked my second-youngest brother to let me know when he organized his next magnificent trundle. Owen does not take walks; only trundles. The longer the better, and the more along the merrier. Today he got a party of seven together, but he failed to convince us to extend the walk around the country block. We went only down Read More


Learn!

Today I got a completely unexpected meeting invitation from HR. It was a meeting for “mentoring.” That’s it. No further text; no further context. Mentoring. You know, the way you would “mentor” someone who has done something wrong. “Son, I’m proud of you. Except for right now. Don’t ever do that again or I will fire you. Have a nice Read More


Against the Bad and For the Good!

Arthur Sido of Crying Out in Suburbia has a good commentary on the lastest Christian popular sensation. The video itself didn’t strike me as controversial at all, at least against the American cultural values overall. Everybody loves Jesus, nobody wants a preacher telling them what to do, and that’s all you have to agree with to like the video. The author probably Read More