Brandon Kraft
Brandon Kraft
@kraft@kraft.blog

My life is an open-source book.

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Austin, TX

Education

B.A., Sociology with a minor in Science, Technology, and Society, 2010, The University of Texas at Austin

M.B.A., Business Analytics, 2024, Midwestern State University (TX)

  • Celebrating Death

    Hours ago, the news media announced that the U.S. Military had killed Osama Bin Laden, the reason “terror” is in the political vocabulary.  President Obama confirmed it a short time later: This news caused me to pause for a moment: Osama Bin Laden is responsible for the deaths of thousands between the various operations under his…

  • Review: Daddy Dates

    Daddy Dates, by Greg Wright, is a great read. It’s been awhile since I couldn’t set a book down and it grabbed me from the forward until the end. The book is written by a father outlining his method of creating a lasting, meaningful and personal relationship with each of his four daughters. The primary…

  • The Great—Olivia! Be Gentle With Your Sister—Silence

    The Easter Triduum celebrations of Holy Thursday, Good Friday and the Easter Vigil of Holy Saturday are some of the most beautiful liturgies in the modern Roman Rite. After 40 long days of Lent preparing ourselves, the big dance is here. Not only Christ’s rising that we celebrate at Easter, but we relive the culmination…

  • Review: Living Life In The Zone

    For the long-time readers, you know that I have reviewed books from Thomas Nelson as part of their bloggers’ reviewer program. I haven’t written a review in a long time, and soon you’ll know why… I’ve been trying to read Living Life In The Zone by Kyle Rote and Joe Pettigrew for over a year…

  • The Cord Has Been Cut

    Finally, I made the phone call. As expected, AT&T does not allow you to cancel a portion of their services online, so to actually end the U-Verse TV account, had to call during business hours. I have been dragging my feet. This TV show (on re-runs that we could watch via Netflix at an incredibly…

  • The Weird Fish Fry

      Whenever you do something on a regular basis, there’s always one time that everything is just “off”. It’s not that it is bad, but just different enough for you to think back on it later that day and take particular note of it. Tonight, the four of us went to St. Ignatius for the…