It's been a most eventful year. Not quite sure where to begin, but perhaps I'll start with a few large obvious events.I got engaged. 73 days and counting til I marry my best friend. What has been one of the most difficult parts of the engagement you wonder? Registering.My ...

Love’s as warm as tears, Love is tears:Pressure within the brain,Tension at the throat,Deluge, weeks of rain,Haystacks afloat,Featureless seas betweenHedges, where once was green.Love’s as fierce as fire, ...

The last week has been incredibly packed with activity. Finals, apartment hunting, and preparation for my parents' arrival, not to mention readying myself for graduation, have been the tasks at hand. Today was my first day in the real world (my last final was yesterday) and it was a successful ...

My old hardy laptop (iBook G3) finally is on the fritz--just minor hardware problems (battery dead, ethernet port unstable, power cord frayed). So Britt and I went to the Apple store and came home with this (2 Ghz, Tiger, Superdrive). Now I have to do homework on it...

This from a remarkable book I'm reading:"For grave dangers to the human spirit lurk in the subordination of the political system and the economic system to a single moral-cultural vision. Daily life is (as Christians believe) a contest with the world, the flesh, and the devil. An attempt to impose ...

These are thoughts that are in progress…After a long weekend in Chicago riding trains and being buffeted by the wind I’m back. Back at work, that is. Last night was the first time this month I’ve actually earned any money. Recently I noticed that I’ve changed a great deal. I ...

I've been thinking about laughter again.Here's a passage from Dallas Willard's excellent book, The Divine Conspiracy, that has been perculating in my mind for quite some time:"Purely spiritual relationships with 'others' would, therefore, be dangerous at best, for they are inherently false to the human condition. That condition is one ...