Beauty blossoms from the Ashes.

As you can see, we’re having one frightening Halloween so far.
Check back later for a video of Ami and I in our costumes!  MUHAHAHA!

I remember very vividly entering Oregon.  When you enter on I-5, you’re already well into a hilly region with lots of trees that it is by no means a drastic change right at the border.  There are plenty of hills and trees in the very Northernest parts of California, so when we entered Oregon, you [...]

Not that I do this everyday, but this one made me think:
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
- Franz Kafka

I’ve had it in my head for quite some time that I should write a few entries about what it’s been like to pick up and move to a brand new place you know, literally, nothing about. So here begins a few part series as I sit and reflect a little about what it’s [...]

Staring into lights all day
Makes it hard to enter darkness
Tv screens and monitors
blasting through my retina
And as the sun I don’t see sets
I guess I’m supposed to feel tired
But after a day of chasing Ami around
Strangely, I’m feeling wired
When silence fills the house is when
I begin to wind my mind
To conquer all things digital
On the [...]

Once upon a time in a place long long ago, there was a long dirt road that led through golden fields to a large wooden house whose paint had long chipped off and whose roof was barely hanging on.  The road had not been traveled on in many years, and the field on its edges [...]

So apparently it’s Blog Action Day 2008, and you’re suppose to blog about Poverty this year, and donate some money and stuff… so here goes.
Poverty
I’m one of the minority Americans who has seen poverty first-hand.  Because I was a youth Pastor, I traveled to various “poor” countries and got to experience poverty like most privileged [...]

My blog is probably boring because…

I’m too poor to be into new music, so I have no recommendations or insights into new bands
Related to that, I’m too busy between my daughter, work, Robin, and daily chores to be into anything really… new music, movies or pop culture, tv shows, magazines, art, culture, fashion, cool blogs, [...]

I love October because:

Both my wife and my daughter’s birthdays are in October (Ami = the 1st, Robin = the 20th)
October is the month in which Robin and I started falling in love – sort of. (she’ll debate that)
Pumpkin Pie, Pumpkin carving, Pumpkin EVERYTHING!
It’s Halloween and all the joyous undead fun that goes along with [...]

Check out this article, entitled “Anger is Crowd’s Overarching Emotion at McCain Rally”.
Here is an excerpt:
“I can’t stand to look at him, I don’t trust him. I don’t like the circle of friends he keeps, I don’t like his policies,” Schmitz said of Obama. “I’m pissed off by it. I’m beyond mad. How is he [...]