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Lights Out

…the gravity of the situation hit me. I had almost died. My heart and breathing stopped.

The Winter of My Discontent

VACTERL occasionally gives you a little break. Though you may have an onerous lists of tasks required to keep your child happy and healthy, you get into an offbeat rhythm that mimics normal life. You find a place of serenity and you think that you have beaten back the deadly predators. But really you are […]

Legacy Code

I had my Imagine meeting this morning. It was our second to the last meeting. Not sure what comes next, but I’m open to possibilities. We are reading the book Naked Spirituality by Brian McLaren. I had procrastinated all week and as of noon yesterday, I had not read the second half of the book […]

More than meets the eye

I love driving from the Eisenhower tunnel, down through the Rocky Mountains and into Denver (my home town). As you go barreling down I-70, you round one mountain, just to see another, and another and another. And just when you think that you are forever trapped in this rocky landscape, you round a curve and […]

All is Relevant, None is True

The final hours of 2011 are ticking away. And my thoughts in these waning hours, as is often the case, revolve around faith. I guess the title of this entry pretty well sums up my recent train of thought. I have been pondering the words of John Lennon in the song Imagine and reading some […]

Mirror Mirror

This is my least favorite time at work. It is the end of our fiscal year and I have to do staff evaluations. Now 8 of my 9 employees received an average to excellent rating. But of course those don’t count. The only one I care about is the one who was struggling. Part of […]

25 Things about Me

I could never answer the question: What do you want to be when you grow up? I had two reoccurring nightmares as a child. Jesus is tied to the railroad tracks and I am trying to untie him before the train rolls over him. Satan is in the sewer drain and drags me by […]