This week several blogger friends of mine have been on the Compassion Bloggers trip to India. Their trip to Calcutta has not only changed their lives but also impacted those of us who have followed their trip through their blogs…
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The swine flu has been making the new a lot lately. They must have even been talking about it at school because Chloe came home yesterday and told me that her and her friends are washing their hands ten times a day because they don’t want to die from the swine flu…
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Over the last few weeks more and more information has been released on the CIA’s use of waterboarding to gain information from so-called “high value” terrorist suspects. Water-boarding is a centuries-old practice used to coerce prisoners during interrogations by using water to cut off oxygen and to…
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This past weekend we drove up to Fort Wayne to participate in the Missions Weekend. My brother Jason and his wife April were commissioned on Sunday to be sent out as missionaries to Thailand. My brother has always been the adventurous, world-traveler type but it’s still hard to believe that he’ll be leaving for an entire year…
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Failure is hard, but sucess is far more dangerous. If you’re successful at the wrong thing, the mix of praise and money and opportunity can lock you in forever…
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My buddy Curtis just got back from his much-anticipated trip to Ireland. While there I told him to pick me up something unique, a memento of Irish culture. He brought me this authentic Irish-style tweed hat, perfect for getting my Ireland on…
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Creating TV scan lines is a useful Photoshop effect. I use it any time I create a blog post header that features video content (like here or here). To create this effect you’ll create a pattern in Photoshop that you can then save and re-use in future projects. Here’s how…
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One of the fun things about blogging is getting emails from your readers. Although I must confess, I don’t think I’ve ever received an email like the one Jonathan sent me the other day…
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Nine years ago on this day I made the best decision of my life. I said “I do” to a spending a lifetime with the most amazing woman I had ever met. I look back on our faces in our Wedding album and remember the emotions I felt on that day…
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Last night we had the opportunity to see William Fitzsimmons in concert with some friends at Radio Radio in downtown Indy. William, for those of you not familiar with him, could best be described as a cross between Sufjan Stevens and Iron & Wine, albeit sadder…
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