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First Half Marathon
First Half Marathon

Two people called me insane yesterday. Both were experienced runners. Why did they call me insane? Because yesterday I ran my first half marathon. Nothing official, just some friends running together, but I did indeed run 13.1 miles (actually 13.2). Prior to yesterday, my longest run was seven miles. Apparently that’s a big jump to make. Insane or not, it [...]

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In The Papers

Today my band, Superficial Charm played at a benefit concert for Bethany Christian Services, a great organization that helps a lot of kids find homes. As I’ve mentioned, my son Jonathan is adopted, so when they asked us to play, we jumped at the chance. One of the reasons we were invited was a song I wrote, which Bethany’s local [...]

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My Weekend Was Better Than Yours

I know it’s already Tuesday night, but man, I had an awesome weekend. Friday night was supposed to be the night we meet with our church small group, but only two of the couples were available, so we ended up skipping the study and just hanging out, which was really nice. It was really low key and laid back. We [...]

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Since I Started Running

Back in April, I took the plunge into the Couch to 5K program. My good friend Ted had started it and was raving about it. I knew I had to do something to get in shape, so I plunked down three bucks for the iPhone app and started running. Slowly. The first workout has you running for a total of [...]

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Web vs Desktop

For all intents and purposes, I haven’t done any desktop programming for almost a year. This was after years of writing Mac and Windows apps, even going so far as to be a regular presenter at REAL World. But since taking my current position, I’ve been all about the web. PHP, to be exact. To be honest, I miss the [...]

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Trauma

Too often, we define trauma in terms of things that happen to us. In reality, it’s sometimes worse when things miss us completely.

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Marietta Day

Another show coming up!

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Superficial Charm – April 10

Come on out and meet the newest member of the band, drummer Jerry Heim!

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Just a test

Just seeing if this MacJournal thing works well as a WYSIWYG client for WordPress. Apparently it does. Unless you want pictures.

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The Rhine Kid Folk Band

So this morning, Grace grabbed the mandolin by grandfather gave me. Jonathan grabbed the accordion Jen’s grandfather gave us. And they started to jam:

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