Recent Personal

• Celebrity Look-Alikes, Version 2

  A while back I did a celebrity look-alikes post featuring a photo which shows me weighing about 35 pounds more than I do now.  I thought it would interesting to do the same with a more current photo and with one from my college days.  Here they are:
  THEN -1981

  NOW - 2008
   
  One thing I will [...]

  March 30th, 2008

• An Answer to My Post on Waiting and Patience

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  The other day, shortly after I wrote my post Waiting and Patience, I received a flyer from a retreat center that had the following poem in it: 

  Patient Trust          By Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
  Above all, trust in the slow work of God
  We are quite naturally impatient in everything      to reach [...]

  January 23rd, 2008

• Insomnia

  It is now after 12 Midnight (notice I did not write 12am, since I do not believe 12 am or 12 pm actually exist), and I have been awake since around 6:30 am on Saturday morning. . . a total of 41.5 hours so far.  Other than a few yawns, I have had no adverse [...]

  March 11th, 2007

• regret

  the protagonist in nick hornby’s novel how to be good has this to say about regret:
  The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That’s what the whole thing is about. And we can’t stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but the [...]

  September 24th, 2005