The Far Green Country

This week is the fourth full week of Fall Term at GPTS.  So far, I have found each of my classes to be edifying and informative.  The lectures are engaging, the professors are knowledgeable, and the reading material is ‘healthy.’  I choose this latter word deliberately, because by it I mean to compare the reading [...]

Just a quick note to my regular readers… yesterday, while moderating some spam comments, I accidentally deleted about twenty of my recent, good comments!  My apologies to those whose remarks have been so hewn from their prosaic bodies.  I assure you, the decapitation was not intentional!

It has been nearly three weeks since I last put digital pen to paper in this space. So what has been going on in that time? Much indeed - some bits more interesting than others.
The first highlight of the last three weeks came at the end of March, when my wife and I [...]

By all accounts, it looks to be a nice today today. I’m sitting at the table in front of my notebook computer near the window; outside, I can hear numerous birds chirping. The days are longer and warmer, a trend which I greatly appreciate. Spring, it seems, is definitely approaching.
I look down [...]

Three days hence, I will turn twenty-seven. Mathematically, the number is the cube of three: 3 ^ 3. That makes it mildly interesting to nerds like myself. Culturally, however, twenty-seven is not generally regarded as a “significant” birthday. One does not attain the right to vote, the right to drink, and [...]

Today I post seven “rules” for a healthy marriage, based on my experience being married - to an extraordinary Christian lady, I must add - for over half a decade:
1) Trust in Jesus has to be central in your marriage. This applies to both spouses as individuals, and to the family you are creating. The [...]

So I’m sitting here at my desk this morning, trying my best to get some constructive work done. Currently at work, I am tasked with writing some software objects in COM using C++. (This hasn’t really changed since I started working at my current employer over a year ago, but I say ‘currently’ [...]

We had an ultrasound this morning. No. 3 is going to be a boy!

… that Robert Jordan, author of The Wheel of Time fantasy series, died yesterday. Wow. I started reading the Wheel of Time when I was in high school. I continued reading it through college, into my married years, after the birth of my kids, etc. The final book was to be [...]

Three words: travel, vacation, & book.
Three weeks ago, I was travelling for work. I will be doing so again quite soon. Between the long flights and the long hours that such trips involve, I do not usually feel fresh or creative enough to be writing much or writing well.
Last week, I was on vacation [...]