I just got done pulling Strawberry Chex out of my son’s hair. It was awesome.
For the last two months Melanie (my wife) has been working on Thursdays so that means I have been home with the boys. It’s funny, a number of people have made the predictable “Mr. Mom” comment. I’ll be honest, I hate [...]
On a whim tonight, I made some major modifications to my blog design. I did a bunch of things….
The Site width is now 960px instead of 1000px. I hope this gives the design a little more breathing room.
I reduced the font size a bit.
Simplified the header
Tried to make the section titles a bit [...]
I wrote yesterday a bit about how I work bi-occupationally (I have two occupations and one vocation - my vocation is “christian” or “Christ follower” if you like that term better).
One of the challenges of working this way is knowing where to draw lines and boundaries. Both these jobs can be demanding [...]
Seriously, if you had to do spend 1 minute and 43 seconds doing something, you’d have a hard time finding a better way to do it…
Uh, yeah, right. No chance I am rethinking my allegiance to Apple despite the long, long list of recent problems my MacBookPro has had (read about them here). Not only did I have all those problems recently, but some of them were repeated. Just this week I was without my computer [...]
I have a confession to make: I was a bad suburbanite yesterday. Why? Well, there are a number of reasons…
I carpooled down to the city in the morning with someone who was already going down there instead of driving my own car.
I walked all over the city. Yes, on foot.
Since I [...]
I am taking the next two days and heading out to a cabin in the woods with one my closest friends. We’re headed up there do to a mix of solitude and community. We made the deal that there will be no talking from after from breakfast till dinner time. During the [...]
…The dude can’t sing. He recently sang for the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley Field and well, it was terrible. Not terrible-offensive. More like terrible-funny. At least he enjoyed himself…
Listen here.
I’ve been pushing myself to be more productive during my work hours, especially since I now have two days of the week where I watch my boys. Since I often work from home and am usually alone most of the day I have found services such as AIM & Twitter keep me from going [...]
My beautiful wife went away for a “girls weekend” recently and came back looking a tad different. I’ve gotta be honest… I love it! She has had longer hair for as long as I can remember and every time she thinks about cutting it shorter she has flashbacks of the ‘fro she had [...]
We were rocking out to old school DC Talk in our house tonight….
For the last two days I’ve been with out a computer. My MacBook Pro is on a little vacation for some R&R. Okay, it actually had a bunch of problems all at once and I finally broke down and sent it off to get fixed. I should have it back on Thursday. [...]
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I was inspired by Joe Thorn, another suburban pastor, to share with you all (whoever you are) how I use my Moleskines. If you have one, you know why these things have a [...]
We took some Christmas money and gift cards to IKEA this weekend and got two of these shelves (at half off!). Cole and I then spent the next 1 hour and a half putting one together. I put the second together in about 25 minutes. I had more fun with the first. [...]
The hair is gone. It had a good run, but I couldn’t last.
Fact is, I am pretty much going bald. There is no way to get around it. OK, I might not be going bald but I sure am thinning!
I am not sure if I’ll ever grow my hair out again. Maybe [...]
A little something I wrote as I was thinking about the significance of the incarnation.
Can you imagine…
Waiting for thousands of years
For the one who would deliver you and your people
from oppression, from sin, from injustice,
from the brokenness of this world.
And when he finally comes,
He is a baby.
Born in [...]
For the last three months a team of people have been driving down to Philadelphia every monday night to serve and get to know the homeless population down there. Just last week we even brought a few of friends we’ve gotten to know well back to our building and had dinner with them. [...]
If you are looking for some last minute gifts, let me encourage you to head over to One Village Coffee and get some of their Kenya AA (It’s half way down the store page). I am drinking it right now and its fantastic. OVC is a great roaster that’s doing some great things [...]
I have a great friend, his name is Scott Hackman.
Scott is co-founder of One Village Coffee.
Scott is a free thinker.
Scott doesn’t fit in your box.
Scott wants to change the world (or at least help the people who are).
Scott is slightly crazy.
Scott has some great things to say.
Scott is a provocative writer.
Scott had [...]
I love my wife like crazy.
I can’t help it. She’s amazing.
What’s a guy to do?
I’ve loved her like crazy for 7 years.
However, I told her yesterday,
I love her more today, than the last 7 years combined.
I think that’s a good thing.
It’s not our anniversary or anything.
She’s just freaking amazing. [...]