Timothy Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, New York: Doubleday, 2007. Stefan Rudniki, narrator, Blackstone Audio, Inc. There’s something about becoming a member of your local library that makes one feel like they have finally settled in a community. Two weeks ago, with an itch to have […]
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 […]
Perhaps the way to keep others engaged in what I am writing is not to start on a tragic note. Yet, in many ways, my year was defined by highs and lows. I will talk about the highs as well, I just figured may as well rip the band aid […]
So I realize I’m about two weeks late for the whole “Best of 2010” blog post. But as I enjoyed my lunch today, I realized that there is one thing I learned in 2010 that has changed my life, and it is something worth sharing: I learned to freeze my […]
If you know someone is listening to you, it changes what you say, how you say it. It changes your expectations of the person you are telling.
“I am the bread of life.” John 6:48. I imagine it like this: The next morning, people’s growling stomachs began to wake them up. If they were anything like me, the first thing they thought about was the last thing they had to eat. For them it was a feast…of […]
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