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Posted on April 30, 2021April 28, 2021

Resilience

"One stroke fells not an oak."George Herbert Seventeenth century English poet George Herbert collected sayings. This one makes me think of several things: Perhaps the…

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Posted on February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

Model rockets

When I was in middle school, I enjoyed building and launching model rockets. Cardboard body tube, balsa fins, plastic nose cone, parachute--with fine strings and…

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Posted on October 31, 2020October 28, 2020

Thirty minutes

The difference between being a well-read person--someone who reads a significant number of books in their lifetime--and someone who doesn't is thirty minutes per day.…

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Posted on October 28, 2020October 27, 2020

One hundred

This is the 100th post. Of course writing 100 posts sounds so intimidating I would never do it. Writing hundreds more sounds impossible--I might never…

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Posted on October 22, 2020October 22, 2020

Underneath the door

Singer/songwriter Michael Card shares what it was like for him to grow up as the son of a medical doctor. If you have a few…

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Posted on October 10, 2020October 7, 2020

Try it again

I'm a huge fan of Indian food. It's a part of my heritage--my Dad's folks were missionaries in India. We grew up eating home-cooked rice…

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Posted on October 8, 2020October 8, 2020

Persistence

I've watched a lot of soccer games. The shots taken to goals scored ratio is very lopsided. Yet, the players, somehow, think it's worth the…

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Posted on August 11, 2020August 11, 2020

How to eat an elephant

She said, "You don't eat an elephant in a day." My first thought was, "Who eats elephants?" My second thought was--"She's right, of course." Rhonda,…

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