• Once upon a time in a galaxy far, far away, teenage boys, wishing to test their masculine meddle and make that rite of passage from adolescence into young manhood–with fear and trembling in their cracking voices–used to petition young damsels to accompany them to an annual customary event known simply as The Prom. Like the…

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  • Happy Birthday, Christa! (I’m delighted that I get to ‘shadow’ you for the next 35 years…and then some!)

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  • I’ve got an interview this afternoon in the big city at a large corporation (not as large as Microsoft, but bigger than Dunder Mifflin.)  Intercession appreciated!

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  • (Salvador Dali’s Christ of Saint John of the Cross) I think I ask this question every year:  Why is the day Jesus got crucified considered “good”?  This year I actually did a little research on the topic. There are quite a few different ideas out there as to where the term “Good Friday” comes from,…

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  • Well, there are necessities and then there are “necessities”.   This weekend we acquired a free piano (seen here:) No one in our family actually plays the piano, but we’re optimistic people I guess.  Anna is very musical.  God has a way of rectifying talent-deficiency in the next generation–so Anna, we believe, can overcome her musical…

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  • I’ve been watching episodes of the short-lived sci-fi show, Surface, on Hulu.com recently.  What a cool show!  I am a sucker for suspenseful shows that were blatantly influenced by the X-files–with new “alien” or engineered species, government cover-ups, and heroic individuals who pursue the Truth at all costs.  I guess this show was supposed to…

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  • I’m speaking of the sky.  It’s cerulean blue today in Edmonds with a smattering of cumulus clouds.  Sunny, too.  I don’t really know what to do with myself in this situation.  Resigned to the squinting, I find myself appreciating the hints of spring and the almost imperceptible breath of warmth in the air. Job hunting…

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