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Out with the old... Last year I wrote 355 blog posts, which seemed like a lot until I went back to my 2006 New Year's post and found that I wrote 452 in 2006. Goodness. But I do think this year's posts were better, at least to some ...

I was at the bookstore the other day and saw a copy of Words to Live By: A Guide for the Merely Christian. Look a little familiar? Eerily similar to the cover for Twilight, no? (It being Christmas Eve, the tie-in to Christmas ...

Walking home today, with the melting snow puddles exploding into brilliant kaleidoscopic reflections of the sun wherever I looked, I decided I like winter after all. There's something remote and poignant about it that makes me feel like I've just zoomed out the camera (because of course there's my ...

The Prince Caspian trailer is out. Mmm. Now, just how many days till May 16? :) In other news (from a rather opposite direction :)), at Christianity Today I came across Jeffrey Overstreet's review of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (part of the His Dark Materials ...

I finished my finals last night. One semester of grad school down, three to go. But let's not worry about the to-go part just yet -- I've got a month of freedom to enjoy first. :) Remember how I said I was going to write a nonfiction book? ...

I'm tired and it's been a full day, but I had a thought on the way to stake priesthood meeting that kind of hit me. I've spent a lot of time worrying about what I'm going to do for a career (I thought I had it solidly pegged, but ...

It's snowing. A lot. And I'm tucked up somewhat cozily on the fifth floor of the library, pecking away on this post as I do my darndest to avoid working on my final for my reference class. The guy next to me has a tinny "Deck the ...

I love talking with people. Whether in person or via blogs or e-mails or phone or any other medium you can think of (smoke signals, anyone?), communication -- good communication -- is a blessed and glorious thing. I've been noticing lately that the good things in life usually ...

"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about?" says Anne Shirley in Anne of Green Gables. "It just makes me feel glad to be alive -- it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we know all about ...

I'd rather she be oblivious to my existence than to know I exist and not care. At least the first way I still have a chance. That idea came to me while reading A Grief Observed in the Cougareat yesterday, and while it doesn't have any connection to my current ...