I was sitting here this morning thinking about the fundamentals of Twitter. I confess, I have mixed feelings about Twitter.
On Twitter, as you know, you have tweets. So does that make the person who tweets them a tweeter?
And if I re-tweet a tweet, am I a re-tweeter?
If you are following a tweeter, their tweets will twitter in your feed where you can tweet on other people’s tweets. Continue reading…
Thought of the day, taken from The Circle Maker by Mark Batterson:
“All of us love miracles. We just don’t like being a situation that necessitates one.
We hate finding ourselves between an Egyptian army and a Red Sea, but that is how God reveals his glory. We want God to part the Red Sea while the Egyptian army is still in Egypt. We want God to provide for our need before we even need it. Continue reading…
My mom’s birthday was this past week. And I have to say, of all family members, shopping for my mother is always the hardest, as she likes to pick out her own jewelry and clothes.
I used to get her books, but then she got a Kindle, and getting someone a virtual book isn’t as exciting a present. And curiously, my mother seems to have the anti-technology gene. What I mean is, we can all get the same technology for Christmas – MP3 players, for example, and my mother always seems to get the one with the broken power button that won’t work right that we have to take back to the store. Continue reading…
In honor of President’s Day this past month, this blog is dedicated to quotes from my favorite president, Thomas Jefferson. I’ve always appreciated Jefferson’s famous logic and eloquence. A Renaissance man in the true sense of the word, he adored literature, music, religion, science, nature, politics, and spoke five languages fluently.
The founding fathers, including Jefferson, designed our country with a surprising amount of foresight, when you consider that they were a bunch of rebels forming a makeshift constitution on an untested democratic model. When I think of Jefferson in modern terms, I think of him tweeting and blogging from the floor of Congress, famous pithy comments such as: Continue reading…
1. If you joke about an event being awkward over and over, it will probably be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
2. Apparently the best way to get an Oscar is to play a weirdo in an independent film no one has heard of. Like Christoph Waltz. (For a master class in this, see Phillip Seymour Hoffman.)
3. Never wear pink spandex pants to the Academy Awards. Because you might win an Oscar for something awkward…like Best Hair and Makeup, and then you’d have to go up on stage to claim it. Continue reading…
As a result of last week’s blog on things men should know, I received a variety of comments ranging anywhere from, “Thank you!” to “I didn’t know any of that!” or “I already know everything about women.”
I’m not an expert, but I’ve had years of being around thousands of women, so I thought I’d share some of the feedback with you. Below are a few comments from male readers: Continue reading…
Being intentional is something we could all use a little more of. That’s why I really enjoyed my friend Sheri’s book, My Intentional Life, by Sheri Bertolini.
Can you separate living intentionally from the space you live in? That’s the question Sheri asks, and it’s a good one. We all may know what “eating intentionally,” working out or planning our finances intentionally looks like, but what about “connecting your heart to your life and home,” as Sheri puts it in the book’s tagline. Continue reading…
In honor of Valentine’s Day later this week, I thought I’d share something that came up in a mixed conversation earlier this month — a few things men really should know, but can’t quite seem to figure out about women.
I’m limiting this list to six very basic things, starting with: Continue reading…
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We roll on, and after a mile or so, suddenly we see three curious mounds in the grass – lions!
“There’s nothing quite like the feeling of first setting eyes on one of the Big Five – lion, buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion and rhino – in the African bush. Being just a few feet away from these majestic creatures is both terrifying and exhilarating, even for the most seasoned safari-goer.” Continue reading…
As a follow-up to the story of the shilling, here is another excerpt from Coffee, Tea and Holy Water, where I was able to visit the “8th Wonder of the World” – Ngorongoro Crater, with TZ missionaries Danny and Nancy Smelser:
Excerpt:
On Thursday, I am able to teach the story of Noah’s Ark at a Swahili primary school, as religion (in some form or fashion), is a mandatory course for elementary children.
This lesson seems strangely coincidental, as the following day we are going to Ngorongoro Crater, the “8th Wonder of the World,” and one of the premier safari destinations in Tanzania. Continue reading…