I had an internal crisis this week that was a good wake-up call in a few areas. I received a phishing email very early Thursday morning that claimed that a hacker had accessed my hard drive through a compromised email account, and that the intruder had planted malware on my computer that would share...
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This afternoon at work, I went and helped a colleague deal with a software problem. We use a site online to help share files with clients, and she struggles to use it correctly quite often. We worked through her issue, and when I came back to my desk, I had a moment where I...
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 →The weekend was good. I’m becoming a little more active than I have been of late. My buddy Kurt and I got three Loop jogs in last week. My body needs the exercise to, of all things, stave off aches and pains, among other reasons. I could lose a few pounds as well. We’ll...
Read more →Tonight, after taking time to make two loaves of bread, I watched a documentary my friend Gwen Sun loaned me, encouraging me to understand what had happened in a country she loves. The documentary, made by a British journalist named John Pilger, was filmed in 1979, four years after America’s withdrawal from Cambodia allowed...
Read more →It’s been a few weeks since I’ve written anything, and frankly, I know there have been things to write, but I’ve either been too busy or the topics seem to big to get into a post. Time has flown by, as well. I often get home in the evenings, and once I am there,...
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...
Read more →For much of my adult life, I have wrestled with the power of shame, and its significance in the making and breaking of the self, and of relationships. I have struggled with its subversive destructiveness all of my life, and as a result thought as a younger man I would take some time one...
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