Interviewer: So why Starbucks ( Read more... )

I am taking a trip soon. A Trip which I really did not believe would happen, and especially not as soon as it has. On August 3rd I am making the 13 hour flight to Okinawa, a providence of Japan. The trip is a short mission trip where I am going to be of assistance to a missionary who leads a house church. He and a handful of other Okinawan ( Read more... )

Today, I am greatly troubled by the events in London. It has especially disturbed me because it happened at places that I have been to fairly recently, and to a city that I have affection for. I can visualize myself at these places but I cannot visualize what I have heard has happened at these places. It's much easier to detach myself from the ( Read more... )

Nothing goes so well with the summer than Madchester and shoegaze British music from the early 90s. What can be a better soundtrack to the sun and the heat that a little ‘Some Friendly’ by the Charlatans or Lush’s gorgeous ‘Gala.’ While you cruse past the green trees in destination for the cool river for a swim, nothing is better than Tim Burgess ( Read more... )

It just so happens that my cute grandmother met her husband in central park New York City (back during the 2nd world War), where she resided in those days. After marriage they moved back to his home county of Fentress, and home community of Opossum Trot / Forbus near Pall Mall. (To tell you the truth, I don’t know where one of these communities ( Read more... )

So I have entered a time. Seems that I can no longer stand my current job. It bores me so very much and I really hate the environment. I desperately need to find something else soon. I have come so close to just walking out many times, but being a slave to money, I have stayed. Hope God helps me to find something else soon ( Read more... )

Just recently, so it goes, I have taken a long journey to visit my friend Carrie Graham. Ahhh… clear skies and the jet sailed so very smoothly all the way to Texas. There was laughter and dancing (little Ashland is quite into Weezer it would seem), Austen and Ultimate Frisbee (Robert is pretty good at tossing that thing around), great ( Read more... )

My father tells me that when he was a child growing up in a neighborhood of Indianapolis, before people had air conditioning, they would spend a lot of summer leisure time outside on their porch because of the heat. People would be out walking about and they would visit each other. When air conditioning became standard, it was much easier and ( Read more... )

Splitting Sounds... Spitting Snow... There's something moving Under... What is that... moving... trying to get out... under the ice... trying to get out... of the cold water ( Read more... )

I think that in many ways I was much more spiritual as a child than I am now and I didn’t even know it. These days I’m too aware of myself and my thoughts. Introspection and self-centeredness only makes one more confused and unhappy in my experience. Also, it seems impossible for me not to put God into the small box of my very limited ( Read more... )