I know this is the second post about Sufjan Stevens in a short period of time, but I just got Seven Swans, and oh man it’s good. I know I’m about 6 months behind all the really cool kids, but oh well.
Wow, what a great record. “Abraham” literally took my breath away the first time […]

Ever feel like the sun has come out, and all of a sudden you can see again? That’s sort of how I feel right now.
January was a really, really tough month for me. The project I was working on at work was in super crunch mode, meaning I worked almost every day in the […]

After using Audioscrobbler for about a month and getting some tracks built up in the system, I have to say I’m really enjoying it.
I actually find myself checking my own page a lot just to see the trends in what I’m listening to. Kinda self-obsessed and weird, maybe, but that’s OK, I guess. One thing […]

This is a fantastic essay by Gordon Atkinson (aka Real Live Preacher). I’ve been reading Real Live Preacher for a while now, and it’s one of my favorites. Great writing from a man who holds a number of jobs (pastor, Web developer, writer, etc) and writes about all of it with a wit and sense […]

“U.S. military crews are launching more than 100 helicopter flights a day from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln ferrying food, water and medicine to tsunami victims, a task they say is far more satisfactory than the Iraq war that seems only to destroy.”
Reuters article
This is my prayer: God, forgive my cynicism. Help others to […]

a pair of paragraphs, full of run-on sentences, that capture some essense of memories I came across lately:
I remember one Sunday morning a number of months ago when I went to church with my family, and my hyperactive 4-year old son was being so hyperactive and just-like-me-at-that-age that all I got out of the 45-minute […]

I’ve finished reading Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott. It continually made me want to stop reading the book and start writing - it’s powerful stuff. Her comments about needing to open up and tell what you know as truth resonate with me, and got me thinking about something I may start writing as a […]

I’m simply going to start writing this blog, something I’ve meant to do for a long time now. I’ll introduce it more later, but for now, I want to get on to the writing and not have to slow down to do the “why I decided to write and what I intend to write”.
So, some […]