I'm finally working my way through the volumes of old Short Talk Bulletins [https://shorttalkbulletin.com/] published by the Masonic Service Association of North America [https://msana.com/short-talk-bulletins/]. One of the earliest, from March 1923 presents some interesting lessons for today's masons navigating a politically tumultuous world. It's a…
The book I read in 2021 that is sticking with me the most is Rodney Clapp's Naming Neoliberalism: Exposing the Spirit of Our Age. Clapp reviews neoliberalism as it exists today before applying scripture and theological scholarship to explain a better way. A couple key highlights I noted: > "By contrast,…
The new year is a good opportunity to pause and reflect. Review last year, assess where you are, and plan where to go next. Part of that exercise this year for me reminded me that I don't blog nearly as much as I would like. Hope to make this a…
I started blogging in early 2005. I'm not even sure what platform I used back then. At some point, I transitioned that original blog to Wordpress. I shuttered that effort sometime in 2007 after starting a federal government position. I just found all those old blog posts in a SQL…
I'm a frequent reader of Robert Wringham's New Escapologist [http://newescapologist.co.uk/] blog. I generally agree with what he has to say about finding your way in the world. However, I think he missed an opportunity to redefine how you find a dream job in his recent post "So…
This being a year largely devoid of church for us due to a pandemic, we are going back to a family "tradition" (we only did it a year to two) from my childhood. We are planning a dining room table advent wreath the kids can light before dinner during this…
This has been a year filled with much more reading than normal. I finally took the annual Goodreads [https://www.goodreads.com/] challenge to read 52 books somewhat seriously. I'm at 44 books right now [https://www.goodreads.com/user_challenges/21264008]. Only eight to go and I have some…
I changed careers about 20 months ago (and took way too long to write about it here). After 12 years in IT project management, I entered an electrical apprenticeship with the Akron IBEW. This feels like an odd, although not unprecedented, move for someone in their thirties with a mildly…