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Chicago II

Friday, October 16, 2009

Heading to Chicago today for FUN and NOT for work.  It will be good to get out of town for a pure and true vacation. Also, I’m still looking for stuff to do/people to see.  Any takers? (Pssst. Aneel, John, & Turnbaugh. . .that means YOU!)

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a lesson in car safety, ethnicity and gender

Friday, September 25, 2009

So my dad was in a pretty bad car accident on Wednesday. Car totaled, mild amnesia for a while, concussion, sprained ankle, but overall, pretty OK . . . all except for one minor mixup at the hospital: I have a feeling that when filling out my dad’s paper work, the intern at the front […]

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Allender on Life Without Faith

Thursday, September 3, 2009
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Summer Book Brigade, Parts II & III

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Finished Sedaris about a week ago.  Not my favorite one, but funny and entertaining nonetheless. Friday I finished Downtown Owl by Chuck Klosterman. This book left me in somewhat of a funk.  Though the funk might (at least in part) be due to the triple-whammy of sinus infection, virus, and headache that left me in […]

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Allender on Powerlessness and Change

Saturday, August 29, 2009

But powerlessness against constancy does not me defeat.  Rather it means I must be ever vigilant—ever seeking truth & shalom, ever feeding goodness into my soul, into my life.

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Wanted: Narrator of Awkward Social Situations

Friday, August 21, 2009

While dining in Chicago my friends and I discovered a new game: narrating the internal dialogue of our restaurant companions at Harry Caray’s: Scenario 1: Ms. Lonely heart: Gorgeous woman on a date with 2 gay men, one of whom she was oh-so-obviously in love with.  I told my friend Brian I’d give him $20 […]

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Greece!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009
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Charlotte’s Web

Monday, August 17, 2009

About two weeks ago a spider moved into my back yard.  I know, I know, there are probably HUNDREDS of spiders that live there already, but this one is like the King, or rather, the Queen of all of the spiders.  She is gigantic and her name is Charlotte.  And every night for the past […]

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cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Rules schmules.  I had to come up for air from the Allender book, and a little Sedaris never hurt anyone . . . although it has been known to make them giggle. Sidenote:  When I was in college, some friends back home played a fantastically annoying game called “TaDAOW.”  Essentially the game went like this: […]

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Golden Nuggets

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Some golden nuggets from The Healing Path, take from them what you will. “The core of love is the capacity to offer ourselves to others—to bless them with our presence and our gifts.  The dance of love calls us then to be open to receive from others gratitude and the gift of their presence in […]

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