Random Ramblings
A Designer’s Critique
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Recently, media outlets released Cojo’s “Best & Worst Dressed” lists for the Emmys and Golden Globes. Aren’t you glad the Original Designer — the creator and designer of Victoria Falls, Yosemite, butterflies and irises — doesn’t judge us by […]
9/12 - Do You Remember?
Friday, September 12th, 2008I was in college at the time of the 9/11 attacks. That Tuesday students clustered around TVs in common areas to hear the latest. Teachers forwent their lesson to facilitate open discussion to help process the emotions following the attacks. But though fear lingered days after, it soon began to give way to something else.
Patriotism […]
Freedom
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008This Fourth of July week there is much talk about freedom. Isn’t it interesting the idea of someone dying in order to allow another to be free is embraced regardless of religious creed or ideology?
So our jaws are still dropped after this most recent gas hike — well at least mine is. Aren’t you glad […]
Celebrating the Gift of Life
Friday, June 20th, 2008Within the last three weeks, I’ve known a baby to be born, a niece to graduate from high school, family members to add a year to their age, and a beloved former high school English teacher to pass away after a hard battle with cancer. Thanks to the common bound of Christianity, though, even the […]
Prince Caspian: Memories fade
Thursday, May 15th, 2008At midnight tonight the highly anticipated cinematic depiction (or interpretation) of the C.S. Lewis classic Prince Caspian will be showing on theater screens nationwide. Having read The Chronicles of Narnia as a child, I remember treasuring the series and appreciating the Christian undertones. Though for the most part I can no longer recall the details […]
Human Suffering: How Can a Compassionate God Allow It?
Saturday, April 12th, 2008This is in response to EJ’s comment on the April 9 post. There is no short, easy, exhaustive response to this question, and by no means do I claim to fully understand this. But I’d like to share some ideas I’ve encountered while trying to understand this issue.
1. God’s original design for life, for creation, […]
Thankful Reflections
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008One hundred years ago, on March 8, 1908, an estimated 15,000 women participated in the garment workers’ strike in New York, protesting against working conditions and demanding economic and political rights. In 1987, Congress declared the month of March to be Women’s History Month.
In light of this, I think it’d be good to reflect on […]
March - A Month of New Beginnings
Wednesday, March 5th, 2008When you think of March, you probably don’t think of wishing someone happy New Year. But for the ancient Romans, it made sense that the year would begin with spring. So March for some time was the first month in the ancient Roman calendar. Some historians believe even the calendar in Russia began with March […]
Making News Coughing
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008They say to write what you know. Well, for me right now that’ll have to be the flu. Last week I joined the thousands in the U.S. who have made this year’s flu season one of historic proportions.
Lying on my couch at home watching the evening national news, I felt like a feverish heap of […]
