Is it just me, or does writing a paper for some class seem to drag on into endless hours? Right now I’m trying to write a simple scene analysis on Raisin in the Sun talking about what’s happening, who’s it…

engadget recently asked, What would Steve Jobs Do. Here are the results… FIRST PLACE - Adam K’s Apple Tablet RUNNER UP - omni96’s iPod shuffle video HONORABLE MENTION - Shane P’s faux Engadget steveynote coverage (which probably has fewer…

Once again I’ve been on a blog hiatus because of busy-ness with work and school. This week I’m headed for Oklahoma (tomorrow and Wednesday) and California (Thursday and Friday). In OK City I’ll be visiting Mardel, a chain of Christian stores in that region. Then Thursday and Friday I’ll be at the Shepherd’s Conference in [...]

Usually when I quote my students, it’s because they said something funny. This time, one of them said something that has stuck with me for several days. I can usually tell when my students haven’t practiced. When they have more interest in talking, a…

Don Knotts 1924 - 2006 The poster that hangs with my other Police memorabilia in my office….

Today I happened across this excerpt from the article on California in the 1878 edition of Encyclopædia Britannica:

“There are some conditions which may eventually operate powerfully to retard the development of this State…. [A] serious matter is the constant wholesale destruction of the forests going on in the Coast Ranges and in the Sierra; there [...]

God has given me this intense curiosity about things, making me a lot like a cat. So every once in a while I find things, read things that make my mind go, “ooooh, that is cool!! how in the world?!”…

I like to travel. I do not know if I like it because I go somewhere or if it’s because I leave somewhere else. This remains a mystery to me. My wanderlust remains both unquenchable and satisfying, if only because…

Have you ever been really, really annoyed by something someone else does? If you answer that question honestly…which of course you will…the answer’s “yes.” Now then, have you ever stopped to think whether you’re guilty of the same annoyance? O…

Call me a fanatic…
Because I am one.
And if you’ve ever been in love then you know what it’s like to be one too…
Because I am loved…
By One who who loved me when I did not love Him.
By One who will never leave me or forsake me.
By One whose Person is deeper than this world.
By One [...]