My first test for this summer term is Friday morning and I’m a bit concerned since none of the Chinese restaurants are open for breakfast. The past two semesters all of my Chemistry exams were given in the evening so I’d eat dinner at one of the Chinese buffets before the tests. Since I did pretty good on those exams I’ve become a tad superstitious ( Read more... )

I said it in my last post but it bears repeating, the biggest sin I can confess in an American church today is that I just don’t “get it.” For those of us who know they’re on the losing end of the great spiritual game Mike Yaconelli, founder of Youth Specialties, wrote Messy Spirituality: God’s Annoying Love for Imperfect People. Several times as I ( Read more... )

We are between churches. Exfiltrating from one church while infiltrating another. The new church is actually the chapel at the Rescue Mission in Fairmont, West Virginia. This congregation has some of the stereotypes you’d expect from such a place and defies them in other cases. I’m still sorting things out so I’m sure I’ll be writing more about ( Read more... )

After the Second World War and through the 1950’s scientists and engineers spread out across the United States to fight the Cold War with the Soviet Union by creating superior technology for war fighting. They also took with them a vision of improving our society by pouring a new foundation based on military and scientific discipline. In addition ( Read more... )

I got my grades for the spring semester -

Chemistry: A
Composition: A
Calculus: C

Not happy about calc but glad I passed since it's a pre-requierment for just about every other class I'll be taking.

I’m not going to transform from fat, middle aged guy to buff, young dude like in the Olivia Newton John video but maybe I’ll be a less-fat, middle aged guy in the next few years. Actually, I’m going into the seventh year of losing weight. Six years ago I topped out at over 400 pounds. The first year of eating changes and exercise I lost fifty ( Read more... )

I’m finished school for this semester; I’ll know next week what my grades are. I’m trying to finish David Beers’ Blue Sky Dream, which I started reading over the Christmas break, by the time summer classes start. My only day off this week is tomorrow and it’s going to rain, what luck ( Read more... )

A man walks down the street ( Read more... )

I turned in the story this morning! If anyone would like to read it it is avalable as a Word doc hereThere are a lot of people who helped me in getting this project done. It literally became a global event in itself. Thanks to all of you but I'd like to single out my professor, Kristin, for allowing me to present a deadly dull topic in an ( Read more... )

I've written five endings to this story, I think I'm going with this one.After clearing security at the airport Maggie sat down and took out her laptop. She started to write an email to her father. Two years prior, after working as an engineer at Boeing for 25 years, Don Delacroix’s department was eliminated and the work they were doing was ( Read more... )