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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Today, I have been married to my wife for 4 years. It hasn't been pure bliss, and there have been downright ugly moments. We've been growing together, and growth hurts, especially when you get pruned. We've had to put up with each other and stare red-faced at our own shortcomings. ...
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Friday, April 24th, 2009
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then would two contrasting pictures be worth two thousand words, because there's two of them, or zero words, because they are opposites? Maybe it's still a thousand words, seeing as most people probably want their idioms free and clear of any math.
Ran ...
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Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
To borrow the literary (spoken word?) device from Jeff Foxworthy, here are some ways to know that you're making a fool out of yourself. NOTE: these aren't slipping on ice while someone is looking on, or losing a piece of clothing in a public place or even an R-rates ...
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Sunday, February 8th, 2009
On this blog, I hope to stay away from commenting on current events, because a) there are enough blogs, 24-hour news networks and radio talk shows that do this already and b) it's reactive and almost welcomes arriving at incorrect conclusions. I would much rather focus on underlying truths ...
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Friday, November 28th, 2008
I always enjoy finding something in the Old Testament that's relevant to today. Gives a kind of coherence to the thousands of years of mankind's history. In recent weeks, I've run across a couple of passages from Isaiah that address, imho, to the current political landscape.
First, a passage ...
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