An Encouraging Word…or something like that
Today I had a moment with my car. She is at that age where she is "mature," which sometimes means I have to change bulbs and things. That's always fun[1] with a German-English-Brazilian car whose design is based on a car that doesn’t really work. This time it was a...
A Few Kind Words About 2013
My last blog of 2013 pointed out that it was a tough year. It was. But it also had some exceptional moments. These are a few things that made it special: Every single former student—whether it was a cadet who endured 5 years of my classes or the kid who was just a...
Those Gawky Awkward Years
(cue “Pomp and Circumstance”) Sometime in the next 48 hours I might just don my mortarboard and a feather boa and have myself some commencement exercises. That is how I feel about leaving 2013 and heading into 2014. It has definitely been an awkward year, and I...
A parable of Osama bin Laden, Jesus Christ, and Stephen Schwartz
(This isn't new material, but I revisit these memories every year. 2013 is the first year I won't do Godspell since 2009, but it won't be far from my heart.) Where was I on September 11, 2001? I was at home. At the time, I was building a landscaping business, and on...
Does This Make Me Look Fat?
A few days ago, I got rebuked by a well-intentioned friend. He was probably right, for that matter, so maybe I shouldn’t even qualify his intentions. Whatever. This is what happened: I was holding a dear baby friend (literally, a friend who is a baby, as in one...
Love What You Do
But yield who will to their separation, My object in living is to unite My avocation and my vocation As my two eyes make one in sight. Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes, Is the deed ever really done For Heaven and the...
Seasonal Friendships
One of the hardest lessons I’ve ever learned, a lesson that was amplified in the events of the last 16 months, is that some friendships are not what they appear to be. I think it happens a lot in the workplace, and I suspect that it’s simply because at work you have...
Outside Eternity
I don’t like the time-space continuum. It is often inconvenient, and sometimes downright cruel. I learned early on that tardiness had consequences. (In fact, I am one of those annoying people who over-learned it, and now if I’m not aggravatingly early, I get...
Enough About Me, Let’s Talk About You
Maybe I’m arrogant to think that there are people out there who are desperate to have me write something new, but, yes, I feel guilty about not having anything to say for more than a month now. It’s not because I’m too busy. I’m not. I’ve had plenty of time to watch...
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