Thursday Random: Rides, Books, and Haiku
I’m working on two pieces — one, a screed against Amazon’s new way of giving me music, and the other on a chapter out of Paul’s letter to the Romans…. Read more »
The Therapeutic Nature of Watch Repair
If I were to tell you that sitting here and watching some guy fix a watch for an hour would be some of the best viewing you’d ever experience, you… Read more »
Well that was quick…
I got up early today (well, a fairly normal time for me, actually – 4AM) to see if Korea could make any kind of showing against Brazil in the World… Read more »
It can’t be helped…
It seems I’m really narrowing down the life of retirement. As I take one book back to the library today, another catches my eye. And although I’d resolved to kick… Read more »
Joy (but not quite)
I’ve liked the group Kings Kaleidoscope for a few years now, and of the few “albums” of theirs that I own, they seem to have been getting better with each… Read more »
Saturday 30: It’s the Little Things
Well, Saturday wasn’t the best morning for riding (although Albert got out and got…snowed (?) on). As for me, I decided it would probably suck to get wet on a… Read more »
Warning Signs?
I have, in the past, posted about a favorite band here — Talking Heads. Not everyone’s cup of tea, for sure. But there’s always something there when I stumble upon… Read more »
The Worst Form of Evil?
For those in the field of Christian apologetics (that is, the defense of Christianity), the name Ravi Zacharias looms large. A world-renowned speaker and scholar of the Christian faith, Zacharias… Read more »
Wonderful
I’m generally impulsive when it comes to books. Someone says, “Hey, I like this one,” and I’m quite likely to get right on it. I just finished Children of God,… Read more »
It’s a Wide, Wide World…
Old people like me probably remember ABC’s Wide World of Sports. It was a Saturday afternoon fixture, and, if my old brain recalls correctly, quite interesting. It introduced people like… Read more »