Ed and I recently returned from a lengthy journey during which we traversed many states and visited many people we know. Most of our travels were fairly conventional, which is not always desirable, so after about a week and a half of relative relaxation I started getting a little annoyed that there wasn’t much in the way of adventure on […]
So, I knew Ed was going to propose at some point. We were in the car together one day when my dad called instead of texting in response to Ed’s request for a dinner meeting, so I knew he had asked my parents for their blessing. But weeks had passed since then. Ed had had […]
It happens sometimes – probably, in fact, much more often than not – that the service to which God calls us is as much for us as it is for those we serve. He will often, I believe, put us in places where we will benefit even though we only signed up to benefit others. […]
Remember when I said I was planning to bring some of my best Blogger posts over to my new WordPress? No? Well, I did. This is one of my earliest blog posts ever, and one of my most popular ones, originally posted on 12 July 2009. I’ve since learned to cook some things (out of […]
Well, it finally happened. Ed’s Volvo is no more. At least, it is no longer Ed’s, and will likely be scrapped in the near future. Ed and I drove the Volvo up from Florida to Pennsylvania for Christmas. Aside from all the usual problems (aesthetic, mechanical, and otherwise), this was fine. Uneventful. It rode happily […]
I decided to make my own Christmas cards this year, and as I was designing it, I decided I preferred the way half-page cards looked. I also did not have access to a paper cutter, and the printer I was going to be using could not do borderless printing. This meant I spent a lot […]
I was reading BreakPoint and came across this amazing quote by Dietrich Bonhoeffer: “Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind […]
Ed’s been teaching me how to drive manual transmission for a while, and he’s been after me to trade cars for a week so I would be forced to get more comfortable with it. Ed’s car is not exactly a nice car. Ed’s car is a 1997 Volvo 850 with terrible air conditioning, broken radio […]
I’ve finally set up my own website and while I’m at it I’ll be “migrating” from Blogger to WordPress. I’ll bring over a few of my favorite Blogger posts and leave the rest behind (hence the quotation marks) and start blogging anew in this space. There shall be many interesting projects and posts and things, […]