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Xanga: The Good Old Days

My first forays into blogging started eleven years ago on the old blogging platform Xanga. Setting my site up just five months before I joined Facebook, it was the place where friends shared thoughts, updates photos, and news. It was our primitive form of the News Feed. The community of […]

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Apocalyptic Hosting

At a luncheon for the pastor’s wives this afternoon, the speaker made a fascinating point. Being hospitable–opening your home in a gracious way to guests–is something we are to focus on in the last days.  But the end of all things is at hand; therefore be serious and watchful in […]

Journal, Work and Lead

Ninja-in-Training 

I am a ninja-in-training.  At least that is what my supervisor at works tells me. The training has been going on for over a year now. Advocating for those who have been neglected and abused, and intervening in the lives of delinquent children with the hope of correcting their course […]

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Masterpiece

“Are you warm, are you real, Mona Lisa” goes the old Nat King Cole ballad, “Or just a cold and lonely, lovely work of art?” The song refers to a woman being like that classic painting, dubbed one of the best of human history, capturing the woman with the sly […]