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Obama’s Speech; MLK’s “I Have A Dream” Anniversary
I am very interested to hear Obama’s acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination on Thursday evening, 8/28. As far as I’ve heard, Obama’s speech falls on the 45th anniversary of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream.” This is no small thing. It is sure to be not-your-average-political-blah-blah, in my view. Barack inspires hope, a hope […]
August 28, 2008
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Naive New Parent, I Am.
My bicycle named Julius is only two weeks old, and having him makes me feel like a new parent. I’m learning how much I don’t know about the baby, and his many shiny parts. People ask me the weirdest questions. And I feel like an irresponsible mother, sometimes; call me naive. Everywhere I go (and […]
August 27, 2008
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Reflection is Good for You
When I lived in Portugal, I used to take a “day away” once a month to do some reflection, journaling, and general soul-caring. It was a requirement for Young Life’s internship, and for that I am so grateful. I’ve decided to try to start doing this once a month reflection day again. Today is the […]
August 23, 2008
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Swaptree-ing
So I’m trying to get rid of some books. But used books are a pain in the astronaut to sell. I found this site called Swaptree that is one gigantic virtual (and free) swap-meet. I think it is mediated by internet robots. It sort of goes like this. Names have been changed to protect the […]
August 22, 2008
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If I Could Preach On Job
Job is a difficult book. It is particularly difficult in that it is framed in a “neat” fairy-tale way, in the beginning and the end–while the center of it is filled with the mess of life: the unanswerable questions of pain. Today in class my group gave a short presentation on our reading of the Epilogue […]
August 21, 2008
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She is Like the Merchant Ships
The bulk of my days, at the moment, is spent in a classroom studying the Hebrew Writings. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the Writings include some of my favorite books: Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song o’ Songs, et cetera. Today we spent considerable time talking about Proverbs, that ever so not-linear, non-narrative book. We love to take […]
August 19, 2008
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Baby, We Named You
It takes a village. Chris’ submission won me over, for the following reasons: 1. Circa 1985, I would go shopping with my Mama at the Mohawk Mall in upstate NY. On our breaks from the shopping I would try to persuade her to buy me a frozen Orange Julius. I was five. I was cute. […]
August 18, 2008
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Streams for Sunday: Take out the Papers and the Trash
August 17, 2008
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Go Metro, Go Bike, Go Beach
It is Saturday, and I want to try something new. I will brave Los Angeles’ very pitiful Metro connections to try to get from my house to the beach by bicycle and rail. My friends from Basilea in the city will meet me there. It’ll probably only take me 3.5 hours to arrive, but hey. […]
August 16, 2008
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Streams for Sunday: Post 400; A Slow Coast is not Enough
August 10, 2008
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The Human Race, 31 August 2008
Nike plus is doing this interesting worldwide 10k on Sunday, August 31. They’re expecting 1 million runners to participate in all sorts of cities around the globe, with portions going to a few different charities. I’m doing the L.A. one, mostly because it fits in great with my half-marathon training. And because in L.A. we […]
August 10, 2008
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Name my Baby
Well, ok. I have thus happily purchased my new urbanite vehicle, the Trek ’08 2.1 WSD. In my quest to go car-less in Pasadena, I’m still riding in style. I went for the next model up, on account of good sales (it’s last year’s model) and all around bang for the buck. I also got […]
August 10, 2008
