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Got a year of essays on the One Year Bible, a few articles on fatherhood, home improvement, management, recipes.

Saturday, May 19, 2018

Norwegian Air experience: short-haul and long-haul

Short version: We took Norwegian Air OAK-ARN-AMS (Oakland California, Stockholm/Arlanda, Amsterdam/Schiphol), and HEL-LGW (Helsinki-Vantaa ...

Filling water bottles at HEL, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, terminal 2

Water in the airport rest-rooms is drinkable but may be slightly warm and not very appetizing. As of 26 April 2018, cold water (also hot w...

Sunday, March 18, 2018

Directed Writing

I don't remember the prompt for the first one, but here's what I wrote: The headlights slowed as they approached, and I took a las...

Sunday, January 07, 2018

Who are you?

A few days ago, in this prayer guide from https://pray-as-you-go.org, the following paragraph appeared: Just one question to think about t...

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Life imitates code

Sometimes life imitates art, as they say; this is a case where life imitates code. It started a half-century ago at least (the story, no...

Sunday, December 10, 2017

A few thoughts from when my home was invaded by adolescents

That was a long time ago, but I'm thinking now about a couple of specific things we heard at the girls’ school in those days. One was...

Sunday, November 19, 2017

What should the church think about nontraditional sexuality?

(title updated 2017-12-10) Some years ago, when I was recruiting the next cohort of elders to be on our church’s board, I spoke with a si...

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Who is this guy?

Collin: I've worked in the computer industry for over 40 years. During that time, I met Jesus (1978), became a member at MPPC, met the lovely Carol and married her, moved to Japan, then back after about 6 years. We have two daughters, no longer teenagers, who are smarter and more spiritual and kinder and nicer and more talented than we had any right to expect.

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