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Outside a storm was raging. Something frantic and wrathful, but profoundly unhappy, seemed to be flinging itself about the tavern with the f...

i moved into my house almost 9 months ago. slowly but surely i have been painting and cleaning and putting my unique style into every room. ...

The most often repeated commandment in the Bible is "Do not fear." It's in there over two hundred times. That means a couple o...

It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find i...

the past six months have been, well, stressful. i've said that rule #1 is to never talk about work, but i will say this one thing. in ja...

i knew that i hadn't blogged in a while, but i was a little shocked to realize that it has been almost two months. its not like there ha...

an excerpt from an article called America's Shame by Peter Singer in the March 13th issue of The Chronicle Review : The World Bank defi...

so remember how back in august i said that micah and i had taken a ton of video on our road trip to portland and that i would be shortly pos...

View Larger Map i enjoyed our group camping trip last october so much that i decided to put together another trip for this year. the plan ha...

what's better than spending a day off work at an art museum? hmmm? getting into said museum for free. this monday LACMA is free for all....

tonight was my first training meeting with the students i'm taking to Ukraine this june. this is going to be a very good six months.

i am 32 years old. i have never felt the need to be embarrassed about my age or refuse to tell someone my age. i have never wished to be old...

this skit is a few years old, but i saw it posted on another website a few days ago and it made me laugh out loud. so i thought i'd shar...

well, it has taken me a while, but i finally completed phase 2 of the ongoing backyard project. during phase one, i took a bunch of bricks o...

this afternoon micah and i spent some time just walking around riverside. first was fairmount park, which neither of us have ever really spe...

...until i've been reduced to a complete blubbering mess. check.

well its been about a month since i last blogged. or really did much of anything creative-like, for that matter. i have an art piece that ha...

this morning i felt like making blueberry muffins. and no offense to betty crocker, but i think that taking a few extra minutes to make them...

monday night i made pies. apple and pumpkin. there really is nothing to a pumpkin pie. a can of this, a can of that, some sugar and spices, ...

the persimmon is an interesting fruit. if not familiar with it's qualities, it can be rather confusing. is it more like an apple, a toma...

this time last year i wrote a post to tell you that i was going to lead a team of students on a trip to build houses in mexico over spring b...

i am one of the first people to admit that the english language is completely retarded. i feel great compassion for anybody who is trying to...

it seems i haven't really done much blogging recently. i guess i haven't felt very 'bloggy'. it also doesn't help that i...

this morning the roommates and i got up bright and early, piled in the car, and headed out to Oak Glen. it was a beautiful morning, and we h...

a large slice of hommemade soda bread, slathered in a dense layer of nutella may very well be the best afternoon snack ever. and by that i m...

i have recently had a longing to go camping. my parents started taking us camping when i was only a year or two old, and we went pretty much...

i now know what it feels like to be caught up in this... wow. i am exhausted.

i have traveled to places where on the plane ride home i was already planning my next trip. like ireland. but with ireland its more like try...

so it looks like our economy is teetering on the edge of the crapper. but if we've learned much of anything at all from history, we shou...