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A Fear of Whales

I was talking to a student tonight and invited him to out bible study. “Oh, I’m already going to a bible study tonight” Oh Cool, With your church? “Naw, there is one with a family, they come to our church sometimes, have you heard of the Truth Project?” Dobson? “Yeah.. It’s like a video series.…

When I went to the gulf coast to help out after Hurricane Katrina I had the privilege of helping to finish a house for a family who had lost theirs. On my team was a school teacher, a pastor, a judge, a car mechanic, a secretary, a professional home contractor, and myself. Guess who won…

One of the most useful words I ever learned does not exist in English. I learned in in Spanish class, where I was taught it meant “enough” but also could be used similar to the way we use “kinda”. Like most things I learned in high school Spanish class it was promptly forgotten, but my…

Passwords, like underwear, should be kept private, and need to be changed every couple of years or they cease to be secure. It’s time for me to change my passwords, which means I’m spending a lot of time on the “My account” section of websites updating things. and getting rather frustrated with the inconsistency being…

I know It’s a classic line for bad blogs, to contain apologies for not updating more. But I do have another full time job, It’s really really busy this time of year. I’ll be back soon, I promise

I got on the express bus to Madison. Spent time online replying to e-mails and catching up with my friend Michael who lives in New York now. It’s striking to me how utterly unreasonable it is to travel by Greyhound. From a customer service perspective this is probably the worst trip I have ever been…

I stayed up on the internet in a UIC lounge until about 4am, ate the other half of some really good pizza, and then walked back to the bus station. People were already lining up for the 6 am bus, and an attendant told me to go stand in line 13   When I got…

So I arrived in Chicago at about 8pm. The bus leaves for Madison at 6 am. For those of you who are bad at math that’s 8 hours I have to spend alone in downtown Chicago in the middle of the night.   I’ve been in Chi once before, on a cross country road trip…

At some point along the road to I must have switched into survival mode. It’s like my Dad, when he goes back home to New York City, and you hear his accent get thicker and his temper get shorter as he prepares for City Mode. I put my Game Face on.   St. Louis is…

About halfway to Columbia Missouri I used the restroom. I’ve used restrooms on buses before. Back in California I was a part of a very large youth group and there was no way we were going to get enough 15 passenger vans to move everybody, so we used to charter buses to our camping trips.…
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