Category: Editorial
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Disclaimer: These are MY political opinions below and may be offensive to some folks. That's not my intent. I just want to express my views because this is my blog and it's where I do such things. I am an amateur when it comes to this stuff so bear with me. My intention is NOT…
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…to leave comments. I didn’t mean to scare anyone away by switching sites. Maybe you are all just very introspective now that it is May. It may appear as if you need a Typepad username to make comments, but you DON’T! Just go to the Comments, put your name in and your comment (and email…
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Disclaimer: This post contains a lot of "blogging" jargon. My apologies. It’s just a defense for my migration. So this is the new yeti home. (I know I’ve tried this before, but this time I’m serious!) Still in my "free trial period" with Typepad I’m pretty sure that I’m officially making this move. There were…
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Yesterday, I read about the horrible shooting in Capitol Hill (a neighborhood of Seattle). As an isolated event this type of thing is tragic and disturbing. What’s worse is that we know this is no longer an isolated event in American life. Do I feel safer living here in China? In many ways, I sure…
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[Warning: This long post is personal in nature and deals with some of what God has been teaching me lately. For the standard fluff, come back some other time…] The last few days I think I have purposefully been avoiding this place (meaning, the blog). It’s a strange thing to admit and a stranger thing…
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This post may make absolutely no sense to you. Fear not! Editorial notes are rarely worth the time it takes to read them… As you know, the Yeti has left his country of origin. Since the Yeti is heading to a new cave in a totally different context in a month he has been contemplating…
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The yeti-speak is officially closed this week. The Yeti is taking a much-needed holiday with his beautiful wife and without his beautiful daughters! O, glorious providence! Instead of waking at 7 a.m. to toddler’s moans and jibber-jabber, we’ll wake WHENEVER to this gorgeous view… (Jealous?) You should be! The yeti-speak will reopen again by the…
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It has come to the attention of this blog’s editor that much of the content lately has turned conspicuously "devotional" in nature. I mean, c’mon, finding a spiritual application from rap lyrics by Public Enemy; that’s a bit of a stretch isn’t it? What’s next, an online billboard with pithy Christian slogans? In the words…