Over the holidays new drama develops for my family and it involves a small town scam. So far as I can tell Xzuberant Faith Basketball Association and Xzuberant Faith Ministry Production is a scam that targets 20 something men interested in playing basketball. [If anyone have any more information about
Continue reading →today emily and i taught our Sunday School, and the lesson today was on the three “wise guys” as I like to call them and how they followed a star to find the baby Jesus. It was a lot of fun, we dressed up, well the three boys in our
Continue reading →Being home always reminds me of who I am, who I am not, and who I try to be. For instance most of my friends here in LA are in school, just out of school or are pursuing PhD (so they will be in school for a lifetime), while most
Continue reading →With all the fuss I made earlier about gifts on Christmas I must say that I still like to get them. In fact Emily and I had a number of long talks about Christmas gifts, traditions, and theological implications concerning these things (and what we want to and don’t
Continue reading →Tomorrow morning at about 6:30 our good friend, Emily Page is taking us to the Burbank airport (heaven compared to LA international airport) to fly back to the good ol state of Ohio. Heading back home is always a double-edged sword for me. As most normal people I love
Continue reading →Emily and I are staying in LA for Christmas this year, mainly because we couldn’t purchase tickets for before Christmas due to Emily’s work schedule and the price of tickets going out of LA the night before the sleigh touches down. At first glance this could be a
Continue reading →Emily bought for me Ecto today – a web-blog publishing platform fully equipped to keep me busy working on posts, and glued to the blue screen of my ibook. Currently I am trying to figure out the whole badge process – which typically I would be opposed to, I am not much
Continue reading →Street Corner Society offers a very thoughtful look into Quaker practices concerning the holidays. This feeds into and also challenges what I said yesterday. Technorati Tags: Christmas, quakerism, theology
Continue reading →I’ve been toying around with new blog templates, haloscan and ecto so forgive the multiple changes updates lately I am trying to get this right. Technorati Tags: test
Continue reading →So today Emily and I worked my last day of work for about 10 days. We are ready for a break, who isn’t really. It seems like our world is built around a “dog eat dog” mentality – this is nothing new, the trouble is, is when it carries over
Continue reading →This past quarter i had the great privilege to be Ryan Bolger’s teaching assistant for his class Transforming Contemporary Cultures. He has done a great post reflecting on things he’s learned from the standpoint of the teacher based on the students comments the last day of class. Taking
Continue reading →Okay – I confess that I’ve been a little distracted by all the tech stuff as of late and sorry for the less thoughtful thoughts instead, about “haloscan” and other strange things. But I’ve been looking around alot for new social software, and other freeware types of things that
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