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I’m still in the middle of reading Countdown, so you get a reprieve from the boring-ass book posts.  Instead, I’ve got a couple of cool things to share with you.
First, you may recall a while back I was plugging for my brother since he and his fiancé were finalists for a free wedding from Bloomington, […]

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I’ve been struggling a lot lately with my place in the spiritual world. So I thought (and the word ends up overused in this post) serendipitous that my brother yesterday called me asking me to right a ‘form’ letter to retreatents for (and I use this spelling to keep people from finding this when […]

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First thought, its cold outside. I really really liked the 60 degree days we were having a week or two ago. They were nice. I want them back. Really.
Second thought, the media is oblivious and the administrations are full of shit. I’m referring particularly to Chicago Public Schools and the […]

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My house growing up was in, what was then, the middle of nowhere. Well, that’s not entirely accurate. You see, I lived on a street with about 20 houses on about a third of a mile. The surrounding 10 miles consisted of corn fields, pig farms, and forest. Of course there […]

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I was a little monkey when I was growing up. Like, literally. I even to this day have freakishly long digits on my feet that aided me in climbing when I was a youngster. It didn’t matter what it was either. Cabinets? Those were like a small hill. A […]

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My eyes are brown.

I really think bacon makes anything better.

But I don’t have high blood pressure.

My cat’s name is Nina.

She came with that name and I hated it at first.

Now I don’t.

I grew up in Noblesville, Indiana.

Now I live in Chicago.

I met my wife on our first day of freshman orientation at St. Joseph’s College, […]

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Every now and then I kind of end up in a place where I’m reflecting back on some of the things I did in high school. Not that unusual right? I was totally the “God” kid in high school…I go back and forth with how I feel about that now, but I did […]

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So does anyone care to learn a little bit about my background? If you do, then well, you’re in for a treat today. I searched through my archives to make sure I haven’t explicitly told this story yet, and it looks like despite 475+ posts over the last few years I’ve never talked […]

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Its about 4:30am CST right now, and Clint and I just got into our hotel room in San Francisco. Its been a whirlwind of a week so far, and just in the last 24 hours I’ve been in 3 big cities, 1 airport, a screwed up flight reservation, 4 major highways, one graveside service, […]

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Talked to my mom earlier today, we’re in the process of packing up our apartment for our highly-anticipated move next week and we found a couple of books we thought were hers, Tuesday’s with Maury and The Five People You Meet in heaven. So I’d been meaning to call her because I keep forgetting […]

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