the long obedience delayed
So, if all this happened in May 2011, if I enrolled in seminary and started taking a couple classes in September 2011, if I talked to my dear friend Patton F. Dodd about this blog in September, why is...
View ArticleCH501 – in six weeks
I’ve got till 3/16 to do 2,000 pages of reading – bad year not to have entered that reading contest some friends put on – write three papers and generally be introduced to the first 1500 years of...
View ArticleA student
I know very, very little about almost anything. My earthly dad would be proud of that sentence. I could hear him saying, at nearly 90, “Ahhhhh Da-wei [my Chinese name], now you really know something.”...
View ArticleAidan’s bear
Yesterday, my daughter, Livvy and I headed to Build-a-Bear Workshop to get a small bear for my four-year-old son, Aidan. All members of the Kuo clan have a bear with a little speaker in it that holds a...
View Article2011 – annus horibilis? annus mirabilis.
In late 1992, Queen Elizabeth II gave a speech in which she concluded that year – in which Diana wrote a tell-all book, Sarah was photographed topless with a guy sucking on her toes, Windsor Castle...
View ArticleOn being an absolute ass
You know those days that are ruined by chance encounters with asses of the human variety? They appear with stunning unpredictability — at Starbucks, a doctor’s office, your office, your son’s soccer...
View ArticleSoccer, Candy Land style
His next soccer game is in a couple of hours. This morning he said he hated soccer – something that predates my assiness of last weekend. Part of it is that he doesn’t understand it. So this morning we...
View ArticleA Psalm for Mariano Rivera
Update: Mariano Rivera declares he will come back – perhaps this season . Yesterday the great, sublime, surreal… Mariano Rivera, the great, sublime, surreal… relief pitcher of the New York Yankees tore...
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