This evening I didn’t want to run. My right ankle hurt, I felt a strain in my left adductor, I was dehydrated and depressed. When I walked in the back door after work, my house seemed airless and exhausted, like all the hope had been sucked out by a giant vacuum cleaner of despair. It [...]
you need to read “A Crime So Monstrous”
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Please drop what you’re doing and read this book. Benjamin Skinner’s book “A Crime So Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modern-Day Slavery,” published in 2009, was not a best seller, although it should have been. If there were any justice in this world, “A Crime So Monstrous” would still be at the top of the best seller lists [...]
rwanda: land of sorrow and hope
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I wrote this a few years ago following a Compassion-sponsored mission trip, but didn’t have a blog at that time. So I’m sharing it now. Rwandans call their country “the land of eternal spring.” Temperate and lush, it is a physically beautiful country, patterned everywhere with neatly terraced slopes bottoming in mist-shrouded valleys. Hard to [...]
Madame Caron’s boeuf bourgignon
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My mother-in-law, Madame Caron, passed away a little more than 5 years ago, on Christmas Day. She was a bright little song bird in this dreary old world, who lived to be loved. Maybe not the best parent, nevertheless she had a kind and luxurious soul that she shared without reserve or hesitation. In her [...]
you need to listen to Peter Bradley Adams
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Have you heard of Peter Bradley Adams? I swear, if there were any justice in this world, Peter Bradley Adams would be a huge star and Adam Levine would be parking his car. I discovered PBA on one of my Pandora playlists and was instantly smitten. He has a sound that is as once accessible and unique, [...]
spaghetti squash with meat sauce
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Have you seen those yellow blimp-like vegetables in the produce section and wondered what to do with them? Spaghetti squash is a wonderful side dish, but it is also a perfectly suitable substitute for pasta, served with a traditional meat sauce. This spaghetti with meat sauce is rich and satisfying, yet lighter than a traditional [...]
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