(Reading on Facebook?  Please, please, please click here to read this entry as it should be: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) I have a new friend.  His name is Mac.  When I first heard that he was coming for a visit—no, had already come—I instinctively despised him.  There were three major reasons for my instant hatred: 1.  I felt […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please don’t.  Click here instead: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine)There’s a real post brewing.  It’s been brewing for a while, actually, and I have felt it keenly.  But it’s not quite ready to be put into words yet.  So while my internal percolator percolates, here are a few of the views that have inspired me and […]

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(Reading on Facebook?  Click this link to see it as it OUGHT to be: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) “Hmmm,” I thought to myself, “what do I really want for Christmas this year?” “By Jove, I’ve got it!” THE GAUZE AND TAPE LOOK!!All the models in Paris are BIG into it (Calvin Klein calls it the “G&T Trend”) and, […]

(I PROMISE you these pictures look best when viewed on Xanga–so if you’re reading this on Facebook, just click on the following link: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) You wanted pictures?  I’ve got pictures!    The last couple of weeks have been EXHAUSTING…but in a good way!  The frantic level of activity, responsibility and deadlines have sent my world spinning, […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Click here https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine instead!) You’ve been complaining (ie. whining)…and I’ve decided to take it seriously this time!  So rather than engage in another wordy essay on the pitfalls of nihilism and the benefits of colon cleansing, I’ll treat you instead to a collection of pertinent pictures.  We’ll start with a budget-friendly remodel […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please click on the following link to see this entry as it should be! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine ) Excerpt from an upcoming prayer letter: GRATITUDE:  “A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation.” It seems like a simplistic definition for a word as overused as it is under-felt.  Gratitude is simply being thankful—like cheer is being […]

You know how you meet people sometimes who seem to burrow into a them-sized spot in you and just kind of set up residence there?  It’s like that spot had just been waiting for them…  Well, such a thing happened three years ago in Toronto, when Ben (aka. Prof) arrived on my doorstep with one […]

(Reading on Facebook!  Please don’t!  The colors and layout and pictures are WAY nicer at this link:  https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine.)There’s a weird phenomenon happening on the court behind BFA.  It appears to be growing curly blond hair.  Shocks of it.  Shocking shocks of it. It happened at lunch time.  A horde of hair-aggressors pinned Austin (aka. Caleb, […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Stop now!  It’ll look a LOT prettier if you click on:  https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine ) It happens every year.  We pile 300 students onto several buses, drive them to the nearest Swiss city (Basel), and set them loose on the streets with just a handful of guidelines: – Travel in groups of three or […]