My roommate recently swapped his gas guzzling truck out for a fuel efficient Scion. Not 48 hours after making the purchase he left his car at an area Walmart and carpooled with a group of sports fans to the Ranger’s game. Upon his return, he found this affectionate letter on his car. There’s much debate [...]
I walked out my front door, shirt tucked in, pants a little too long and resumés in tow ready to show the local school district that I was undoubtedly the person they most wanted to fill their teacher vacancies. When I sat down in Skylar’s bucket seat and turned her key, a familiar and soothing [...]
Nearly two years ago I authored a post creatively entitled “75 things that make me smile and/or things I like“. After a bit of thought, I decided that there was no way revisiting that topic was going to hurt anything. As such, I’m revisiting it under the new title of “50 things I like like”. [...]
It’s time once again for another unveiling of a Songwriting Club product. This round’s topic was none other than “truck drivers”. I’ll offer two points before divulging the lyrics.
Point 1: I know many (read: three) of you have requested that I record these songs and share them with the masses. I’ve decided that I’m entirely [...]
As I endure this season of job searching (one of life’s evilest necessities) for a teaching position, a question of the teaching variety has come to my mind on multiple occasions that I thought I’d bring to the odfm table for discussion:
What should I teach the public school, junior high population of [whoever hires me] [...]
There was a time, and it wasn’t too long ago, when all you needed to do to ensure everyone knew you that you were cool was to take your laptop to the local coffee shop with your iPod headphones and a classic novel in tow inside your messenger bag. It would be preferable for said [...]
Tonight I had the immense privilege of praying with a family I’d never met on behalf of their sweet baby girl, Ava.
Many months ago Ava was diagnosed with an extremely rare and life-threatening disease called Moyamoya. Since then, (from my understanding) she’s needed to see a specialist but hasn’t been in good enough condition to [...]
Over the past several months, I have fallen deeper and deeper in love with certain things on the Internet. As a result of these strong feelings about particular sites, browsers and the like, I’ve found myself (strongly) recommending to friends various alterations to their existing Internet surfing behavior. Some of these friends have requested that [...]
I found this gem on a recent photography outing to Old Downtown Carrollton, and I’m pretty happy I did, because it provided me way more opportunities for good shots than did the entire downtown square. Feel free to see a sampling of the 702 at the ol’ flickr page.
“Assistance to fontline” was the call.
And a strikingly common call at that. Dozens of times daily do REI employees hear frontline assistance being beckoned over the intercom. Those who are able (and willing to boot) answer, allowing the line of (im)patient customers to efficiently make their way out the door. Only this time two things [...]