Guard Your Taste

I approached the counter and asked about the progress of my food… now if you know me you’d believe me when I exactly said, “I’d like to know about the progress of my food”

The Big City

Saturday morning I woke up at 3:45 am…on purpose. I don’t like to wake up early, especially if I don’t have to, but Saturday was different. I was given the opportunity to be flown, for free, to New York City and attend a free day-long conference hosted by Columbia University’s Teacher’s College. For those of you who are even remotely familiar with me and my many neuroses, you know that I have a pretty intense passion for free stuff. I also have a mild obsession with professional development opportunities. So, when I was presented with the chance to combine my two loves, I was blinded to the possible effects that that much travel could have on my already tired system. read more>>

Innovation

I continue to be amazed at how much the world has changed since my earliest memories. The days before email and the internet are a part of my memory as well as the days before cell phones and texting. Innovation is a significant part of our day to day life even if we do not see it. There are people who are dedicated to finding new and different ways of going about the same things. A great challenge which exists with innovation is the journey is never done. Innovation must always be innovating to remain innovative. “Read more >>”

Adventures in Awful: My Opinions

Do you ever get sick of hearing yourself talk? Of hearing your own opinions? I’m there today. It’s not that I am talking too much; in fact, I’m a pretty quiet guy, so talking too much isn’t exactly a risk for me. It’s more that I feel like everything I would say is entirely fluff. We live in a crazy world where there are voices all over the radio and the TV spewing their opinions and thoughts about every conceivable topic. There are people vomiting opinions on their blogs and web pages (sheesh, who would do that?), and sometimes I get caught up in the sea of opinions and unsubstantiated claims, truths, and new angles. Then, usually, I get to a point where I just crave silence. I don’t want to hear anybody’s opinions, and, even more importantly, I don’t want to hear my own opinions. read more>>

Caffeine Dependency

Three months ago…. “beep, beep, beep, beep, bee…….”.

“Give me five more minutes…. five.. more…”

… 40 minutes later …
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Close Encounters of the 4th Kind

For those of you who have seen the cherish Steven Spielberg movie you already know what the first second and third kind are. I’m here to refer to you about the fourth kind… and sadly enough these beings are not currently not on another planet. They are here, right now. They’ve infiltrated our neighborhoods, they hold power in high offices of the land, they are hidden among those who teach our children and they serve you food on a nightly basis. Be aware people… idiots walk among us. read more>>

The Coffee Buzz

Coffee shops have been a love affair of mine for awhile. Something inside of me craves the tranquil utopia that is a really good coffee shop. I can’t get enough of the intoxicating aromas, intriguing sights, and assortments of sounds. They draw me in and captivate me for hours. The funny thing is I don’t even really like coffee. Read more>>

Got Discouragement?

You know the feeling of constant effort without progress? That feeling of giving everything you have and appearing to be in the same place as when you started? If you couple those feelings with a world around us that seems to be spiraling downward, and you could find yourself discouraged. read more>>

Disney Trip

Just standing in line here fir the Magic Kingdom bus and thought as a Tech Jock that I could be doing something techy. So I thought I would see if I could keep an ongoing article on our trip. So here goes…
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Adventures in Awful: Failure

For today’s edition of Adventures in Awful, I’m going with a little bit of creative writing. What follows is a story that I wrote for my students at school about something that happened on our family farm when I was about fifteen. It’s not a fun story, but it’s a true story. I guess if I have a point today, it would be that sometimes we get the idea that if we are doing our best or, as Christians, if we have enough faith, then life will go the right way. Truth is, sometimes it just doesn’t work that way. Sometimes our best efforts end in a big pile of failure and it can be confusing, sad, difficult, discouraging. In a weird way, I hope this story is encouraging to you; I hope it lets you know that failure happens and it’s our job to work through it and recover from it. Happy reading! read more>>

I Don’t Want to go Crazy

So this weekend I did something, I must confess, I’ve never done before. It was the cause of immense stress and fear, moments leading up to this I was shifting my eyes from viewpoint to viewpoint, ideas of claustrophobia entered my mind, my heart was racing, I had people confronting me with questions I didn’t have answers to. A ticking clock was staring back at me and there were a few things I could not control… read more>>

Stuck

Recently I heard a newscaster say, “You are what you eat.” If this statement is, in fact, true, my body currently consists of a strange blend of high fructose corn syrup, sugar and caffeine, inordinate amounts of heavy cream, globs of pasta sauce, and soggy cereal. read more>>