GOODBYE TO ALL THAT: Thoughts on turning 67 and knowing when to quitHVASS, CHARLIEBench & Bar of Minnesota
On January 27, 2025, I turn eighty years old. Frankly, this is hard for me to comprehend. I remember when my father turned eighty, and I thought he was so old. Now, all the talk about how Trump and Biden are too old has had some effect on me, even though I am for sure … Co...
“In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good, you’re not gonna have to vote.” Many Christians seem to love Trump back. A Pew poll from April showed that more than 80% of white evangelicals support the Republican nominee. ‘It’ll Be Fixed!’: ...
I am not sure of the value of AI translations. On one hand I feel like I was able to get a good understanding of a text that I had wanted to read for many years. On the other, one is left to wonder how accurate they are. At any rate, unless people come after me with pitchfork...
The last post on this blog was two years ago at the start thepandemic. It was a trip report on one of the first virtual conferences I attended – the 2020Knowledge Graph Conference. In the intervening two years, I’ve attended other virtual conferences and even attended a couple of hybrid...
Thoughts on Turning 36 Yesterday I turned 36 and whilst I still feel and look like I am in my 20’s, turning 36 and being only 4 years away from my 40’s makes me feel a little bit weird. I don’t know what it is really – I get that to age is a privilege and it isn’t...
Fifty years old in America is a pretty big number in our lives. We realize that most of our life is behind us. That for the vast majority of us, the course of our life is set, the sails are open full and we are now holding on tight for the rest of the ride. Sure, for some ...
I have spent the last 14 years earning a living out of a job I never went to college for— a job I opted to take in spite of protestations by those dear to me and amidst the lure of viable opportunities abroad. “You’re a nurse, why don’t you make productive use of your profes...
Joseph spent years as the only apparent believer in the one true God when he was a slave in Egypt. His witness spread to others. But he had to remind himself of God’s truth on his own. Two turning-point meetings with God in Jacob’s life happened when he was alone. ...
Incidentally, this is the kind of thing that ends up annoying me 10 years after the fact with so much of the rhetoric in N.T. Wright’s Surprised by Hope. It’s still a great book, but the impression you get early on that everybody forgot about the resurrection until the tail-end ...