Tonight I enjoyed the first movie I’ve watched in a little while since I have tried to dedicate myself a little more to reading and writing since the beginning of the year. Ever since seeing the trailer for the Marvel film “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”, I had anticipated taking the...
Read more →Tonight, we spent the early part of the evening with Walter, saying goodbye. My sister’s exchange student, Walter departed this evening to head back home to China after spending a school year here in Albuquerque. My brother and his family, my parents, and my sister’s husband’s mother met Walter for dinner at Applebee’s near...
Read more →For whatever reason, whenever I hear a Richard Marx song, I think mainly of two things- one, the killer CD boom box my brother bought back in the day, and the other, mowing yards on sweltering summer afternoons in 1988. I think of the killer CD boom box because it had exceptional bass, complete...
Read more →“Both the one who makes people holy and those who are made holy are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers and sisters.” Hebrews 2:11 Last week I wrote about a foray I took into the literature on my bookshelves related to shame. The topic remains at the...
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