Slowest moving part of the wheel

Just back from the 806. Hub City. (See title.)
We had a great time, the most we’ve really spent in LBB for a while, and I have to mention this place: Manna Bread and Wine, down in the old Cactus Alley mall, soon to be nestled in the shadow of another Marsha Sharp overpass. Check out [...]

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Opportunity for Blathery On-and-on

I’d like to see the results of this thorough study:
How often are people’s positions on religious and political commitments changed by reading or contributing to the comments on another person’s blog?*
How often are people’s positions affirmed or strengthened by contributing comments?
Is it more, or less likely change would occur than if someone were [...]

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Not Even the Internets Know What I’m Talking About

Get a Cash Advance

Note: That’s not my ad. I don’t recommend getting cash. I’m just not savvy enough to remove it. Smarts, for sure.
Another way of looking at this: All that education, and I still can’t write like a grad student (“no duh,” says Graduate School Community).
Actually, my understanding is that each of these [...]

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Why Fenelon didn’t blog

I am not at all surpirsed that your feelings of lukewarmness and your lack of attraction to the spiritual life should cast you down. Nothing can be more disheartening. You have only two things to do, it seems to me: One is to avoid all that distracts or absorbs you. By doing this you will [...]

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Things I’d Like to Write More About: The Revenge

1) Hey, Grinches, check this out: “Advent Conspiracy is an international movement restoring the scandal of Christmas by worshipping Jesus through compassion, not consumption.” You can join this movement as an individual or as a congregation. Wouldn’t that be somethin’?
2) Current consumption: new Sara Groves. It’s not the immediate soul flood the last one was [...]

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30 Days of Write

No, I’m not committing to anything, but this month is the start of NaBloPoMo, the national blog-everyday-for-a-month month, and NaWriNoMo, the national write-a-novel-in-a-month month (50,000 words or more). You have to refer to these events by their smashy abbreviations, because you don’t have time for extra words during this demanding 30 days. I am really [...]

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Two ways to save

1) Paste, a la Radiohead, is offering a “pay what you want” one year subscription. A lot of the new artists I listen to came to me through the monthly Paste CD and magazine. I am amazed if this will work for them financially (you can even renew at your own price), but it’s great [...]

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