Tonight our church small group got back together again for the first time in three weeks due to the Christmas furlough. It was a joy to be back together with this small cluster of people who have become my circle of closer friends over the last year. I am glad there was a lot...
Read more →This morning when my alarm went off at 5:30, I pretty much cursed it and then texted my friend Kurt, trying to talk him out of our scheduled Loop run. I had been having a good dream and my bed was warm and I just wanted to sleep, so everything in me did not...
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I don’t know what the deal is, but I am enjoying a round of nausea this afternoon. My guess it is the result of re-upping on a medication, but it could also be my stomach’s unhappy handling of a mug of coffee this morning, or a reaction to something else I have eaten. I...
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It’s another late night post after a long day. That seems to be the mode of late. I want to get something written up about a topic or my day, and the words don’t develop until after 10 p.m. I wish I could get past that. Still, today was a good day, if only...
Read more →For whatever reason, I was so wasted last night. I was in bed by 9:30 PM (which is early for me) and I slept fairly solidly until 7:00 this morning. I’ve been dealing with sleepiness between 2 and 3 each day this week, even though I drink coffee in the morning and eat a...
Read more →After maintaining decorum by posting notes five nights in a row while in Puerto Rico (6 if you count the day before we left), I ran into a mental block called tiredness and stalled on my up-to-the-day reporting. What follows is my effort to recover my memories of what happened on day 7. Day...
Read more →In my continued variation in reading, I have been reading “Surprised by Grace” by Tullian Tchividjian, in which he takes a look at the story of Jonah as a vehicle for the gospel. I really like Tchividjian’s writings because as a teacher, his thought and theology is firmly planted in the primacy of Jesus’...
Read more →This morning, I met my regular running buddy Kurt for our semi-weekly trot of torture around the Academy Loop. It’s not always a trot of torture, but this morning, it was especially , ummm, “invigorating” because the thermometer read 27 degrees at the house when I left it at 5:50. Bundled up, I met...
Read more →Yeah, I know- 2011 is over. I just didn’t get a chance to write these down at the end of the year. Still, I read a few books last year that really stood out to me, and I wanted to share them. In no particular order… Abraham, by Bruce Feiler (History/Religion) Not only does...
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