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A tiny shelf

I was in a conversation with my friend Jeff, at a housewarming, last weekend. He was talking about painting his porch. But not just painting, because he can’t do just that. There’s the scraping, and prepping, and… And I knew exactly where he was going with the idea. As if Continue Reading

Categories intangibles

God?

“Obey God.” This is a phrase I hear from uber-religious people… friends, family, and strangers. But I don’t understand it. There is evil in the world. Bad things happen to good people. That’s a fact. And the justification I have repeatedly heard — even from my own minister when I Continue Reading

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Father’s Day

I swear it was father’s day when I started trying to type this. But then… computers. My father really was a computer nerd. Of all the things he got called in life, computer nerd seems the most unlikely. He grew up as that little kid from the Grapes of Wrath. Continue Reading

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2 possibilities

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ― Arthur C. Clarke