I’m compelled to write down a few thoughts about the past 17 days as I have been immersing myself in the Winter Olympics much more than I have in any previous Games. Thanks to Shaw for offering a sweet deal on cable just before the Olympics started. Some highlights: FIGURE SKATING: I very nearly decided … [Read more…]
So, I should say from the get go that Uncle Wolf wasn’t related to me. Everyone just adopted Wolfram as their uncle. I had the privilege of knowing Uncle Wolf while working at Foothills Summer Camp for four summers during my university years. He and his wife Bonnie were the caretakers at the camp and … [Read more…]
All photos courtesy of Chris and Christie, our companions to the show! A couple weeks ago, Amber and I splurged (actually, we splurged back in July when we bought our flights, reserved our hotel, and got tickets off our friend Chris) and flew to Vancouver to see one of our all-time favorite bands perform the … [Read more…]
I stumbled upon wordle.net today and it ended up consuming about two hours of my afternoon. It essentially is constructs word art by associating the size of the word with the number of occurrences it has within a particular text. What you see above is a compilation of the first 472 entries of this blog. … [Read more…]
Tonight I stole my son to go star gazing with some junior high students from my school. My colleague, Mr. Schneider, managed to gather a few astronomers with their impressive telescopes in our back field at the school. He gave a short talk and presented about 10 minutes of a video about God and the … [Read more…]
Thought I would highlight two of the albums that have been dominating my playlists over the past couple months. The first is a quadruple e.p. set by Jon Foreman, the frontman for Switchfoot. The 24 song album is almost entirely acoustic and many of them emulate Old Testament prophetic verse. Truly some of the most … [Read more…]
It’s no secret to many of my friends that I have nursed a discontent with the institution of the Christian church in North America for several years now. There are a variety of reasons for my feelings: use of funds for the local body and their own comfort, lack of identity or vision, political alignment … [Read more…]
25 random things about me. If you’ve been tagged on FACEBOOK, then you’re supposed to make a list too. 1. I miss having long hair. 2. I am currently in the middle of 10 books. 3. I am a very slow reader. 4. Since April 15, 2007, I have watched 299 movies and have blogged … [Read more…]
This past fall I took a second online course (first one) from the Chalmers Center in order to further my knowledge of international development. As the title spells out, the seven week course explained the principles of creating financing opportunities and enterprise training opportunities among the world’s poor. There are three main ways that this is … [Read more…]
Photo: AFP/Getty Images Late last night I ended up watching the interview that Rick Warren hosted with Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama (watch it here). I was deeply impressed. When I was in Guatemala I didn’t have much of an opportunity to see video of Obama and I was limited to distilled sound bytes in news articles. … [Read more…]