- Continuare “C’era una volta…” I began, to answer the question of Michele, our Roman professor for this semester. I gathered to myself that if I started out with a pithy English idiom in Italian (“Once upon a time…”), I could fool everyone into thinking that I have a lot more comprehension than is true. A few days […]
- [Holga] It was Summer The wonderful thing about shooting with film is that you must be patient. There is no instant pleasure. The wonderful thing about shooting with a plastic toy camera is also this: you get to play. It is what you do. This summer was one of my favorites, yet. I got to play a lot […]
- Can Gentrification Be Redemptive? Today, a friend on Twitter posted what I thought was an excellent (and provocative) question: Without giving it much thought, I responded immediately. I realize I’m responding as one whose studies at Fuller have centered around culture (and, by translation, why Jesus teaches us to preserve and challenge culture in subversive ways within it.) I’m […]
- Moving In I need to turn over the proverbial leaf with a new home. I need a new house. I need a new address. That’s why I went and moved into this new space today. I’d started blogging in 2006, just as I was leaving Portugal. I started on the old school hipster Blogger.com. I mostly began because […]
- Betty and Aaron In my Ethics class this morning, Dr. Dufault-Hunter talked about virtue ethics and the way our character develops. She told a story from her church community about Betty and Aaron. Betty and Aaron were both widowers who married in their 80s. In their consummate cuteness, they decided to celebrate their anniversaries every month because they […]
- Streams for Sunday: Post 400; A Slow Coast is not Enough
- To Tell the Truth When I come home to my parents house, on some nights I stay up very late and I consume an entire box of Kraft Mac-n-Cheese. I did so tonight, in fact. And God saw it. And it was good. I’m not certain, but I think such things makes me feel as if I am somehow […]
- [My Pride] Bikes to Work. Well, as I haughtily predicted, I won some raffle prize during Bike to Work week. I’m not yet sure what it is that I won, because I had to be rushing off to the coffee shop after dropping my raffle ticket in the box at the City Hall festivities. I thought I had heard my […]
- It Might Be An Urban Legend, But Recently a health-conscious friend made a bold declaration to me: “Every hour that you go to sleep before midnight counts as two hours! Your body was meant to rest when it is dark and wake when it is light.” I like the idea of living with the rhythms of the Earth. So, I’ve been trying […]
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- Pocket-Sized Feast Enabler I finally bought myself a pocket-sized TNIV today. It is soft. It looks like a Boeing 737. It is not going to weigh down my bike ride. In truth, I was drawn to the name of its outer “style,” the Italian Duo-Tone. I am Italian. We can be a duo. I realized today that it […]