We had our typical winter storm in Portland this week. Forecasted as a major snow event as close as 2 days before, it snowed for 30 minutes, then it was freezing rain for 5 hours (in the middle of the night), and 40* and very wet by the time I woke up. So very very [...]

On the back wall of the stage in my church’s main sanctuary we have a cross. Now and then we cover it up to put up some type of design so the stage and sanctuary has a different look and feel. Most often we then put out another cross somewhere on the stage, but now [...]

About a month ago Time magazine did the unthinkable and named a 26 year old man their person of the year. They also kind of dated themselves because he probably deserved the award 3 years ago, but it was a gutsy move nonetheless. Mark Zuckerburg, founder and CEO of Facebook was Time magazine’s 2010 person [...]

First fortuitous bouncing of 2011. For those of you new around here, just about every Saturday I post a “best of” list from great blog posts and news articles I found throughout the previous week. I encourage you to discuss any of the posts in the comments or just tell me how you’re doing. One [...]

Usually at least once a week someone will ask me: “Why do you use Twitter? What’s the point? I don’t get it.” Just about everyone I know is on Facebook at this point (although I do know a few abstainers), so it would seem fair to say a person asking something like that is on [...]

Over Christmas break Rose and I started watching the NBC show Parenthood. We’ve been slowly catching up to the latest episode of season 2. After watching a few episodes I began to see a lot of what I viewed as similar to myself in a certain character, known on the show as Adam Braverman. Here’s [...]