Coming into the New Year, it felt like I finally was moving forward in some things in my life. Now that January is closing down, I feel back to where I was before, frustrated and confused and tired and unfocused. After finally shaking a month long cold to begin this year, another one has...
Read more →Ahh, Fletch.
Read more →Dwight’s desk disappears. So classic.
Read more →The highlight of my day today was being able to pay a tribute on Facebook to my old boss at RCN in Chicago, Stephanie Ratko. Busy with a lot of responsibilities of her own and always professional, Stephanie still stood by me, made time to listen to me, and overlooked a tide of emotional...
Read more →I heard this song on the radio last week for the first time and it grabbed me. Fantastic music, great lyrics. Not a past Plumb follower, I’ll keep my ears open now for more stuff by Tiffany.
Read more →One of my favorites from a while ago. Always liked Collin’s music.
Read more →As I dug around tonight for something to write about, I went through my normal agitation-distraction routine and visited Facebook, and then checked my email again for the twelfth time in the last hour, and then I hopped on over to ESPN online to check hoop scores. Once I saw that Illinois was losing...
Read more →I had lunch with my good friend Jenise today, and we took some time to visit about what has been going on in our lives the last week or so. At one point, she asked me about how things were going in our church small group. “Things in our small group have been pretty...
Read more →The weekend was good and busy, but with some challenges. After work on Friday, I met my friend Sally for some dancing with the club people at Grahams. It was enjoyable, but I felt tired a lot more quickly that night than I usually do. Saturday morning, I woke up, and my long muscles...
Read more →I am sure this has been done many times before, but as I start my career as a basketball coach (for 4th grade boys in a church league, no less) I was reminded there are a lot of lessons a basketball coach can give to us that relate to living a good life. I...
Read more →In the summer after my 4th grade year of elementary school, my parents bought a home way out north in Albuquerque (at the time) and moved us to a street that was near the edge of town. The development was new enough that the land on the south side of the main road we...
Read more →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 →So, I decided that for my New Years resolution, I would try to write more. I would try to write regularly. I would try to write for an hour, 5 days of the week. It started off pretty well, for two days. Then I missed one. And then I wrote one. And then I...
Read more →After a year-and-some of living in this structure people call my house, I went out in the garage tonight and emptied about three boxes of books, bringing them inside for a public life on a new book shelf I threw into the meager furniture mix. I actually went out in the garage and planned...
Read more →Sometimes I like to stop and think about David- yeah, that guy in the Bible- because the Good Book says that God really loved David, because David was “a man after God’s own heart.” I try to figure out what that means, what David did to have a heart like God’s, because I’d like...
Read more →It’s an interesting thing, that we greet each New Year with hopes and aspirations. We like new beginnings, and since time is measured by our calendar, we naturally realize the best time to make a change is when the year seems new. The funny thing is, we follow a calendar that is artificial. The...
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