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Archive for October, 2009

Photos and fencing

This past week was quite windy. Tuesday as I was driving to work, I noticed 3 huge tumbleweeds totally blocking the turn lane. Even though the wind was blowing really hard it was like they were stuck!

When I grew up in Illinois, tumbleweeds were things you only read about in books. It has been interesting [...]

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Grace Culture Spectrum

I’m fascinated by different church cultures. Here’s one way to look at church culture: where you fall along the grace spectrum. New post at my Visual Church Leader blog.

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Teaching and learning

Today was Attempt #2 to go down to the Bay Area, after my extraneous trip yesterday!
My day started out quite stressful, involving a missing video camera, missing blank video tapes, 3 minutes to run to my office and tech booth before service started, a cup of untouched chai latte calling out to me, and trying [...]

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So today I packed up a bunch of stuff and drove one and a half hours down to the Bay Area for a speaking engagement… only to discover once I got there that the speaking engagement is tomorrow.
Oops.
So I know I am absent-minded but that’s a bit ridiculous. I’ve never been a whole day off [...]

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Flaming hair dryer

Well I had an exciting evening. I was drying my hair when suddenly there was a flash. At first I thought we blew a circuit. Then there was another flash and I realized a big gout of flame was coming out of my dryer!
I went, “Ack!” and dropped the dryer (it landed in the sink). [...]

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Office makeover

A few weekends ago, my office had a total makeover. Our friend Glen used to be a professional painter and I learned all sorts of very interesting things about painting! Always great to work with a pro… I love seeing how skilled people work… learn so much from them! And it was  kind of a [...]

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teenager Photoshop magic

My daughter is only 13 years old and making slides for her youth group. I must say I am quite impressed at what this girl can do! She’s doing stuff in Photoshop I didn’t even know could be possible, because she takes time to poke around. It sure is fun having a mother-daughter interest in [...]

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