It was in the Summer of 2005 that I read Shadow of the Almighty, which tells the true story of missionary-martyr Jim Elliot and his time in South America from the perspective of his widow Elizabeth and large excerpts of his own journal. This account of Jim’s life and death encouraged me not only in [...]
Every guy remembers well his first car. Whether the memories are fond or foul, they are deep-seeded in the man who has been so fortunate as to own a vehicle.
My first car was Roweena (pictured above in a never before published D.O. senior picture). If you’re able to see beyond the then very cool high [...]
For over a decade of my life, Christmastime brought feelings of increasing excitement throughout December’s duration as I anticipated the morning when I’d discover what Santa had brought (which was really all I was concerned about… never mind celebrating the birth of Jesus). During much of that decade-plus I also grew excited about the hours [...]
As an employee of a retail company, it was inevitable that I would be working on Black Friday (known in some circles as Buy Nothing Day.) In the midst of countless laps from the floor to the warehouse retrieving size x or x.5 in a million shoes for various customers, I heard about the Walmart [...]
About a year ago I heard a story on NPR about a project the Washington Post had recently conducted. The premise was both simple and brilliant: Have a world-class musician, wearing plain ol’ street clothes, play some of the finest music ever written on a multi-million dollar instrument in a busy Washington DC subway terminal… [...]
Though I didn’t fully realize it until college, I believe that I’ve always been somewhat of a thinker. I spend lots of (read: too much) time in my head: analyzing, criticizing, contemplating, and breaking down everything from the remotest corner of my own being to society at large.
As such, every once in a while I’ll [...]
Of all the items commonly found in living rooms, bedrooms, and offices, very few draw me towards themselves the way bookshelves do.
I love bookshelves.
If someone is giving me the grand tour of their place, I often get stuck the moment I reach a bookshelf, and miss out on a large portion of the remaining tour. [...]
“Blog”.
That’s got to be one of this day’s most well-known words that didn’t exist a decade ago. Everybody and their dog has a blog these days. If you find yourself in a group of Internet-savvy people and you asked them if they either have a blog, or read blogs, I bet the great majority of [...]
Effective the third full week in Philadelphia, my weekends began on Friday, not Saturday. As such, this particular Friday found my day getting started several hours later than did the mornings of the four days prior. Having completed my daily morning rituals as morning itself was coming to a close, I opened my window to [...]
One of my duties as an intern here in Philadelphia is maintaining and updating various myspace pages that are under this company’s umbrella, ella, ella (I never can resist that). This requires that I spend ungodly amounts of time on myspace.com reading what people write us, rather, what they write Shane, who doesn’t see their [...]