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Paralyzed by Potential

By on December 7, 2011 in Personal

Let’s imagine something together, shall we? You find yourself in a large, white room with walls so far away, you can’t even be sure that they are there. You glance up, and realize that you can’t really discern a ceiling either. This looks and feels a lot like the Construct (loading room) from The Matrix [...]

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Daddy, why don’t you go to church with us?

By on January 17, 2010 in Personal, Religion

This morning, while sitting at the kitchen table, the question that I had expected my son to eventually ask me, was finally asked. After taking the self-applied clip-on tie off of his undershirt, buttoning his top button, and correctly reseting the tie, he looked at me and said: “Daddy, why don’t you go to church [...]

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Pat Tillman Remembered

By on December 6, 2009 in Personal, Sports

Last month, ESPN produced a nice 8-minute piece on Marie Tillman, the widow of Pat Tillman. While speaking to a group of high school students last month after the Ft. Hood shooting, our discussion touched on the volunteer nature of American armed forces.  When someone mentioned how much soldiers have to sacrifice in order to [...]

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Tuesday Newsday – Jon and Kate Plus 8 finale

By on November 24, 2009 in Tuesday Newsday

Yesterday was a eventful day in the world of the television shows that are important to me.  First, it was announced that the final season of LOST will begin on February 2, 2010.  As you know, this is Groundhog’s Day.  The creator’s of this show are keenly aware of nearly detail of this show’s production. [...]

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Elizabeth Lambert – AKA The Dirty Female Soccer Player

Elizabeth Lambert – AKA The Dirty Female Soccer Player

By on November 18, 2009 in Sports
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I felt a number of different emotions when I first saw the video of Elizabeth Lambert from the University of New Mexico soccer match vs. BYU on November 5, 2009.  If you have not seen it yet and you want to dial up your own emotional response to it, here you go: I had a [...]

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Tuesday Newsday – Ft. Hood aftermath

Tuesday Newsday – Ft. Hood aftermath

By on November 16, 2009 in Tuesday Newsday

The dust has settled from the tragedy at Ft. Hood.  With it, little else is known about why Major Nidal Malik Hasan felt compelled to take so many innocent lives in a storm of bullets at the deployment center.  As I wrote last week, it is possible that Hasan was attempting to go down in [...]

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