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Month: August, 2008

sound the bell, school’s in sucka

A couple days ago I put a CD in Skylar’s 6-disc changer that hadn’t been played in at least seven years. Written on the CD’s face in once-blue-now-purple ink were the words “A Burned CD: aka D.O.’s Burned CD”… seems I was quite the jokester during my high school days.
The album might have been more [...]

and all the single women wept: 2nd edition

It started nearly two months ago when I received a phone call from Mikey Mills informing me, so as to rid himself of the title “sneaky”, that he’d bought an engagement ring which he intended to use in the weeks to come.
It progressed in the form of a handful of additional phone calls and text [...]

road trip anyone?

Andrew Peterson’s Behold the Lamb of God tour, December 18th at the Ryman Auditorium (the tour’s closest stop this year)… I could feel it. Who’s in?

and all the single women wept

Flower Mound, TX – Yesterday morning, as the sun was emerging above Texas’ Eastern horizon, Colby Neal Ivey of Luther Street fame, asked Mackenzie Annette Martin to be his wife. Upon Martin’s “yes” reply, the couple officially became engaged.
Though there were no witnesses of the event, a gathering of close friends was held shortly following [...]

book review vol. eighteen: Jesus for President

Jesus for President was published while I was in Philly working at my internship. While working there I met both Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw, the authors of this book.  One of the perks of working (for free) with the folks in this camp up in Philadelphia was that I managed to acquire a copy [...]

notable “came from’s”

Being that I’m so shamelessly obsessed with my own blog, it should come as little surprise to anybody that I’m also on the up and up when it comes to how many (or few) people are visiting odfm, and where those people are coming from.
Most of the folks who come to these parts get here [...]