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It’s Sort Of Like Alien vs. Predator

Yesterday night, after my adventures [1], I returned home to check my e-mail while I wrote and before I went to bed. One of the messages I got was a request from Amazon (through Kindle Direct Publishing, which publishes some … Continue reading

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Book Review: Speak

Speak: How Your Story Can Change The World, by Nish Weiseth [Note: This book was provided free of charge by BookLook/Zondervan Press in exchange for an honest review.] Although I have never read anything written by the author (who is … Continue reading

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Consider Your Target Reached

Yesterday, I saw an amusing video for one of my more obscure Coursera classes on the manuscripts of Medieval Spain, and the professor of the course was pleased that most of the people in the class already had degrees (many … Continue reading

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Book Review: A Godward Heart

A Godward Heart: Treasuring The God Who Loves You, by John Piper [Note: This book was provided free of charge by WaterBrook Multnomah Press in exchange for an honest review.] You can learn a lot about an author by reading … Continue reading

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Damage From A Distance

Today, because my own local church services had been cancelled due to snow, I had the chance to watch the webcast for my former congregation in Tampa, which I do not get the chance to do because I am invariably … Continue reading

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This Is Why, Why We Write

In the book I just finished reading [1], the author discussed going ten days without speech as a show of solidarity to those who are enslaved without a voice. As an elementary school student, I was once challenged to be … Continue reading

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Even If It Was A Mistake: A Review Of The Music Of 2013

It is not common for me to review the music of a year as a whole, at least not in recent years. 2013 was not a usual year, and in fact it was a year in which popular music played … Continue reading

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Edge Induced Cohesion: 2013 In Review (Part Two)

Even though WordPress has already produced a glitzy review of the blog for this year [1], as is traditionally the case [2], I have decided to write my own review of this blog’s progress through the Gregorian year (even if … Continue reading

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2013 in review (Part One)

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 92,000 times in 2013. If it were an exhibit at … Continue reading

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Some Nights I Call It A Draw

I must make a very strange figure whenever I travel or whenever someone sees me writing in public. It is not an uncommon thing to see someone playing with their smartphone in public, but it is a different thing to … Continue reading

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