“Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.”  ~  Dwight Schrute, on the office I turned thirty this week […]

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“No mathematician today can embrace the whole of his subject as did the great Gauss a little more than a century ago.” ~ Irrational Man by William Barrett Let me begin by writing that I had no clue who “the great Gauss” was until Wikipedia enlightened. And this in part goes to prove my point. […]

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This Christmas was the first time Ivy really understood the significance of the moment. Of course she still does not understand the calendar, so everyday she was asking if today was the day – had Santa come? … In some ways the church can fall into this same rut, waiting for Christ to come. Of […]

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“Blankets are OK but they can slip and slide, plus your hands are trapped inside.” ~ http://www.getsnuggie.com A favorite moment from our New Year’s lock-in was when Rob Thompson and I discussed the world renown Snuggie. His family—as all good American families—has multiple of these amazing blankets (unfortunately, Meg and I have zero… which I […]

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It can seem like change occurs overnight. Take the election in Massachusetts yesterday and all of sudden the press is scrambling to explain shifting political winds (actual the chase began a few days ago with polls showing the possible results). Of course these winds had not shifted overnight, just no one noticed… “The wind blows […]

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