WOW! It’s been quite a week. Lot’s going on here at the cottage and on campus, but I did manage to get to the office and jump on the scale Thursday afternoon. It was just that I barely have had time to sit in front of the computer and do anything. [...]

Sherman (on the Mount) Kuek, my Malaysian connection, must be one heckuva carpenter, because time and time again, he hits the nail right on the head.
This post of his from this past Monday got me thinking… we may not currently be called to suffer or sacrifice for our Christian faith (depends of course on what [...]

Larry Norman, described as “the poet laureate of the Jesus Movement” died early Sunday morning after a long illness. I first saw the news of his passing over at Steve Camp’s blog. The large part of Larry’s body of work was written and recorded in the late 60’s and early to mid 70’s, [...]

In the course of 3 emails from her mom, news on Christin went from encouraging, to dismal to hopeful.
1) Her general practitioner called out of the blue (not even having known that Christin had been in the hospital, and insisted she come for an appointment. The GP was able to get her an appointment [...]

2nd milestone…
I broke 290 the first week of the mission (not terribly hard to do since I started this thing a mere 1/2 pound over that). Now I’ve left 280 in the rearview mirror….
277.5
This represents a 2.5 pound loss for the week, and a 13 pound total loss since 01/24…. and still no [...]