Words of Redemption

As you may well know, Amazon released a little item called the Kindle last year. It’s an eBook reader. Better still, it’s the FIRST eBook reader, in the way that the iPod was the FIRST Digital music player. All others missed the point. That point being: decent product + great distribution channel = killer app. [...]

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L.L. Barkat has tagged me for a meme on odd jobs, courtesy of the folks at High Calling Blogs. Count me in!
Here are the rules:
1. Write about the Strangest Job I Ever Had and tell what I learned from it.
2. Link to other “Lessons from Odd Jobs” posts.
3. Tag my post “Lessons from Odd Jobs”.
4. [...]

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For some reason, I miss Italy this morning. The trip was over six months ago, but I found myself thinking this morning about how fantastic it was.

Maybe I should write a story set in Italy… transport myself back for a bit. Or maybe I should stop procrastinating and just write something…
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“For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but faith working through love.” - Galatians 5:6

Last week, in an extension to my review of David Gregory’s The Next Level, I spoke about faith being all about me, which David classifies as level four of five in his parable. I stated that I am [...]

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“I believe that the so-called “writing block” is a product of some kind of disproportion between your standards and your performance… One should lower his standards until there is no felt threshold to go over in writing. It’s easy to write. You just shouldn’t have standards that inhibit you from writing… I [...]

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“Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?”
- Romans 7:24

Faith is a vehicle for my own personal satisfaction and happiness.
When I reflect upon how I spend my days and the attitudes I carry from one activity to the next, my thoughts usually revolve around:
My mood.
My feelings.
My benefit.
My [...]

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“The Next Level: A Parable of Finding Your Place in Life” (David Gregory)

I’m participating in a book tour this week for The Next Leve l, by David Gregory ( Dinner with a Perfect Stranger ).

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I’ve been a blogger for over three years (only a few months here, but much longer at my techie blog) and over that time I’ve discovered an important truth about myself as a blogger:
What I prefer to read is similar to what I prefer to write.
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It’s time again for Penseive’s Poetic License.
This month’s style is the limerick, which has an unintentionally funny section in the Wikipedia entry about how the only good limericks are the dirty ones:
“…from a folkloric point of view, the form is essentially transgressive; violation of taboo is part of its [...]

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