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Sunday’s Best: Is This the Way?

It’s been a good day for new comics in the Sunday paper.  I’ll get around to sharing a couple of other examples throughout the week, but I thought this week’s FoxTrot was definitely worth sharing today. We don’t really get … Continue reading

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Midweek Moment

Veterans’ Day was yesterday, which made for an interesting break in the middle of the week.  It often feels like normal work weeks are hard to come by, but a midweek day off feels a bit like a mid-week weekend … Continue reading

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On a Break

So I inadvertently took a break from posting for most of last week.  Last Wednesday was packed.  Classes, meetings, mainland phone calls, groceries, yard work, helping move furniture: by the time I was done with the day, posting an entry … Continue reading

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The Problem with Perfect

There’s this moment in every season of Big Brother where they have a “double-eviction” night.  They basically run two weeks of game play in one evening.  From an audience perspective, it’s intense.  From a player’s perspective?  I can’t imagine. We … Continue reading

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The Better Offering

I don’t follow many online newsletters, though I do like the comment.  I follow Matthew Anderson’s because he regularly talks through “Christian ethics” in a way that doesn’t happen as well as often.  One of my favorite parts of his … Continue reading

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On the Edge

It’s an odd thing, waiting on the edge of a storm.  But that’s where we’re at as we wait to see what becomes of Hurricane Douglas. Yesterday was my first official full day back at work.  It was the first … Continue reading

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Away from Trivial Grief

The particularities of life during a worldwide pandemic have brought some fresh urgency to how many are articulating their faith during this season of Lent and Easter.  Yesterday I recorded my Easter message for school chapel; there’s really no way … Continue reading

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Downshifting (or the sense of a life)

There’s this intermediate state between the end of a quarter and a real sense of being “on break” that is always tricky for me to navigate.  Part of that difficulty comes from times where I go (almost) straight from the … Continue reading

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Thoughts from the Road

The traveling has gone well these last few days. While it’s been a little rainier than usual for us, we’ve still had more than our fair share of sun. We spent Monday in London, starting with the Globe and ending … Continue reading

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Sunday’s Best: Equivocating Density

Today’s Frazz comic by Jef Mallett is another great example of an intelligent conversation that employs multiple meanings of a word.  Plus there’s a lot to learn, which is always interesting. It’s a good Sunday for the comics, actually.  I’ll … Continue reading

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