In which I make a public commitment to do something that could end up being a colossal failure…
Desperate times, my friends, call for logos containing pirate parrots. So here’s what I’m planning to do.
Category: Being me
The people have spoken…
… and by “people” I mean the four folks I’ve talked to about my last entry. 🙂 I’m all done with cyber-dating. As my friend Emily said just today, “If being matched with your former boss isn’t a sign, I don’t know what would be!” In fact, I think I’ll just quote Emily’s e-mail to me this morning for the rest of this post, because she’s really smart: God is bigger than Christian Mingle… despite…
Sayonara, cyber-dating?
As I’ve mentioned here before, I’ve been in the trenches of cyber-dating for a decade now. I’ve had some great experiences, some not-so-great, some just downright nuts, but overall I’m glad I’ve done it. But I’m thinking I might be done. A few weekends ago, I was writing to a man in Minneapolis who seemed really nice, but came with lots of baggage (two pre-teen daughters and a crazy Russian ex-wife. Seriously. He’s a former…
Whining in the wilderness
There are lots of stories in the Bible that pretty much blow me away. I was listening to a teaching a few weeks ago, and the pastor cited a story about the prophet Elisha. Apparently, according to 2 Kings 2, when a bunch of local boys were making fun of Elisha for being bald, Elisha called down a curse on them and two bears came out of the woods. And ATE. THEM. Seriously. That ain’t…
The belly of the whale, part 3
Catch up on the prior installments of this adventure here and here… “Does this feel like the belly of the whale?” the voice said in my head. I knew what the voice meant. In the book of the Bible that bears his name, the prophet Jonah is told by God to go tell the people at Nineveh that God knows what bad things they’re doing, and ain’t cool with it. Jonah knows this news will…