My Current Highlights: – The TV series, Heroes.  I know I’m a sucker for comic book-related entertainment, but I’m surprised how much I’ve been enjoying this first season.  Hiro is awesome.  He ties the storyline together and keeps things interesting. – The confused look on my students’ faces as I attempt to teach them English. …

We have pictures.  We’ve been in Xining over the weekend with our team, and alas, I’ve recovered the digital camera USB cord!  So we have some long overdue photo albums for your viewing pleasure. Here are some photos from our recent time in Thailand. Here are some photos depicting our autumn in Jianzha. And here…

I have no good explanation for the lack of content lately.  In true ironic form I’ve been thinking about nothing but writing, writing, writing for the last week.  Not necessarily thinking about writing blog posts as much as the writing process itself; mulling over my life-long on-again off-again obsessive affair that I’ve had with this…

ben·e·fac·tor (běn’ə-fāk’tər)n.  One that gives aid, especially financial aid. Etymology:  1451, from L.L. benefactor, from Latin phrase bene facere, from bene "well" + facere "to do" My greatest benefactor, when it comes to my writing pursuits, seems to be my mom.  Not only did she buy the majority of the copies of my self-published novel,…

"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" – Ray Bradbury Tell ’em, Ray!  You preach it, brother! I have been bothered lately.  And when I say ‘bothered’ I mean really…

Saturday morning, Starbucks in the mug, online television on the laptop… Baseball!  Yankees vs. Red Sox on ESPN.  (Aaaahhhh.) Nothing like starting the day out on the right foot…

"When we embrace our unique place in creation, when we believe that God has created us to create, it begins to change everything for us.  It not only empowers us to live, but it holds us responsible for life.  Not only our lives, but the lives of everyone we could affect for good."Erwin Raphael McManus,…

Sometimes I get onto the internet, check my blog, and find myself truly disappointed that there isn’t a new post waiting for me.  Can you believe that?  It’s almost as if my true self and my Yeti alter-ego have split into two distinct individuals.  One posts blogs and the other reads it.  My reader-self is…

The angry yeti surfaces from his hidden lair and lumbers his way through the blinding snow and freezing rain… With caffeine in his veins, blood-shot eyes zeroed in on his target, and sore muscles dangling from limbs like abused sausages, he plods his solemn course to the Great Halls of Learning. Impolite weather conditions cannot…