Electing

Joe Posnanski, in a recent article, pointed me to the CNN Electoral Map. The map begins with polling predictions, but it is interactive. So the user can change states to vote in favor for their candidate and watch the electoral college swing back and forth. Joe pointed the way toward an electoral tie, which would […]

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Hunting for the Church

I visited my good friend Joey this past week. His church offices are in a converted house, on a large lot surrounded by woods. During a leadership meeting Joey noticed a deer out the window. He asked to be excused and walked up to his office – a converted bedroom. He picked up his bow […]

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Double You

Yesterday I spilled coffee on my keyboard. Thankfully not my laptop’s keyboard – I attach a full keyboard – and this keyboard lay directly in the splash zone. I flipped it over and let the coffee run out. Then tissue dried the keys. Last I turned on my desk fan for a final dry. Amazingly […]

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Business of Life

“Between the trains going by and people going west and coming back and highways going through, there’s a sense of everyone wanting to be elsewhere.” ~ Dan Maginn quoted in the KC Star Amid the concrete and steal of downtown. Atop a six-story garage filled with cars, grows a field of prairie grass. There rests […]

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Mumbling

This morning I got up early. I needed to be at the hospital to pray before a surgery. I also woke Meg up, since she was teaching PDO, and we went through our sleepy eyed routine. Mumbling. After getting dressed, I closed my door and walked down the dark hall. As is all too common […]

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