Monthly Archives: July 2009

“Papa build the orphanage by hand…Then, as a service to the community, he built a church next door. He and his sons labored for almost a year, using cement, stucco, and wood. It was the first Protestant church on that … Continue reading →

“Are those people poor?” “Very poor.” “Wow, they’re lucky to be on tv. I’m not poor and I haven’t even been on tv!” -My sister, while watching a documentary about illegal immigrants.

My brain is really disorganized right now. Possibly because I went to sleep worrying about fall arrangements and then I had a dream that at least a couple things had been accomplished in my life, then I woke up and … Continue reading →

Well, what can I say?

My sister managed to accidentally superglue her eyelashes together today. First reaction to this potential emergency? “Oh, shoot! What?! How?…Doesn’t matter…Hang on, let me ask google what to do.”

So there’s this article on CNN about the growing success of love hotels in Japan, there are thousands of them, blah blah blah, I don’t think this is really news, Japan’s been doing this for decades…The point is that the … Continue reading →

this is what i call a sense of humor: Me: Hey dad, what’d the doctor say? Dad: Oh, it’s awful. He says I’m going to end up dead!

This is the first of four questions related to reading that I feel so strongly about and take so much effort to answer every time I’m asked that I’ve decided to write down what I think. You can see the … Continue reading →

People have been asking me the following alarming questions with increasing frequency lately: “What’s the big deal about READING anyway?” (after receiving a longer response than they cared to hear, they say….) “Okay, fine, I admit SOME books MIGHT have … Continue reading →