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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…
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OK, here are the answers to the Christa quiz I posted a few days ago… If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, and would like to, go to this post and download it before reviewing the answers below. Everyone is on the honor system and must grade your own quiz. No cheating! So far (other…
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An ex-pat friend recently asked me if I would do him a favor. Red flag number 1. He said that he needed an English-speaker to help with a certain language-related task at the minorities college I attend here in Xining. Red flag number 2. Don’t ask my how I get involved in these types of…
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Birthday festivities went pretty well I think (?), but you’ll have to ask Christa for the real scoop. Christa came to the realization this year that we are now at that age where our children are more excited by our birthdays than we are. (This will not always be the case, of course.) We also…
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Today this lovely young lady turns 33 years old! Can you believe it? For my birthday this year, we got some quality time at a retreat center with good friends from the States… (It was an awesome, mini-vacation.) For her birthday, Christa gets…Xining (sigh). We have friends here, too; don’t get me wrong. It’s just…
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Watched this movie, Babel, last night. I thought it was very well-done and engaging. It reminded me of movies like Traffic and Crash on an international level (where seemingly unrelated characters and plotlines eventually converge, i.e. wreck, with often tragic consequences.) I just had a few (probably obvious) observations while watching: At first, because of…
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Update (04-15-07): My mom sent an update on my aunt Robin. I thought I would pass it along. I went back up today and she is in very good spirits. The cancer is Glioblastoma Multiforme. She will come out of ICU today and go into a regular room. They will start giving her juice and…
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Christa was at a local market the other day and found these… Yeah, those stickers say Washington. I thought they had to be counterfeit, but Christa assures me that they are authentic (both stickers and apples). The apples even have a waxy sheen to them. (No, they aren’t made of wax! One has already been…
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I assume you’ve heard of the Pied Piper of Hamlin. An entrepreneurial sort of man with a certain skill with wind instruments. You might remember how he used the power of his music to escort all the mice and children…(gulp) out of Hamlin. But you might not have heard about the Piper’s modern day equivalent…Sir…
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"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,…
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