Category: Reflections

  • Water and Establishing The Work Space

    Water and Establishing The Work Space

    Vancouver, Portland, Chinese Gardens, and Austin, TX.

  • Why I’m Embarrassed By My Degree

    Why I’m Embarrassed By My Degree

    I am embarrassed by my degree. Not my major, nor my university, but the date. Embarrassed because few people knew about the secret of the date on it.

  • Awaiting Her Decision

    Awaiting Her Decision

    The Catholic Christian tradition holds that Jesus was born to a normal woman, Mary, who was a virgin, using the traditional definition of the term. God, being born into the world by a woman, wasn’t forced upon Mary, but only occurred after she gave her consent.

  • Adult Time

    Adult Time

    Parenthood is an absolute joy. There is nothing like the unconditional love that your children display to you. However, Mommy and Daddy need some adult time too. Vanessa and I were sitting down together one night a couple of months ago when we realized that something was missing. I love my work and the community…

  • Does A RSS Feed Grant Right to Republish?

    Does A RSS Feed Grant Right to Republish?

    I received a couple of pingbacks from a site that republished a couple of posts from my site in whole, pulling them from my RSS feed. The owner of the site maintains that by having a RSS feed that has the full content of a post, I am allowing someone to republish the content. If…

  • The Spirit of Halloween

    The Spirit of Halloween

    Giving out candy for Halloween provides for a week’s worth of people watching compressed into a couple of hours. In our neighborhood, we’ve been given the reputation as a Trick-or-Treater’s paradise. The homes are close together, the front porches are only a couple of feet from the sidewalks, and the area is well-lit—I could count…