May
11
This is going to be one of those stream-of-consciousness posts. I’m not sure what to write, so I’m just going to start writing. There is something that wants to come out, and I’m not sure what it is, so let’s see…
I spent much of the day yesterday going up and down the front hill with [...]
Apr
27
I’ve made a donation myself and I hope that you can send any amount via PayPal or postal service. It’s a reasonable fund-raising goal and I think it is very important to support this case. One man against the whole legal apparatus of the Watchtower Society is facing a hard road but there is a [...]
Apr
05
Oh! What a wonderful night it was!
Rainier is in town. He’s giving at paper at the National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference this afternoon, but last night he was free for dinner.
Through the rain and lightning and terrible traffic, John and I drove into the center of Atlanta to meet him. I had made reservations [...]
Apr
05
I finally got the email I wrote to myself in April of 2005.
Matt Sly and Jay Patrikios from DearFutureMe.org included my email in their published collection Dear Future Me: Hopes, Fears, Secrets, Resolutions (pp.152-153), which was pretty fun (yes, they did ask my permission first).
I’ve edited out the amount of my student loan and [...]
Apr
03
Mommy brag warning!
Our son’s “Google doodle” made the cut and he is one of only six finalists at his elementary school to have the opportunity to enter the big Google contest.
The contest theme is “What if…”. The kids had a template of the Google logo, and then designed their own drawings around it.
At Google [...]
Mar
16
I had a vivid dream this morning about death and destruction, perhaps as some weird dream way to continue processing the thoughts from yesterday. I was also affected by the many images of destruction from the storms and tornadoes in Atlanta yesterday.
In the dream, I was in some sort of high-rise building with three [...]
Mar
15
We all die. I don’t know whether or not there is an afterlife, and neither does anyone else.
People have a range of beliefs. Some people believe in a heaven of fluffy clouds. Some people believe in a hell of unending torture. Some people believe in a gray space of limbo.
Some believe that one’s place [...]