Exhale. While the air flows over your lips and out from your nostrils, four or five people on this earth died–for each, no breath in to replace that last breath out.
Inhale. Twice that number have filled their lungs with life for the first painful time.
Exhale, inhale. Breath in, breath out.

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I got my Graphire3 pen and tablet yesterday. I am hoping that someday, after I have progressed in the Way of the Adobe Illustrator, people will behold me with Wacom pen in hand and fear me. Right now the most I can elicit is a snicker. Here are the results of a […]

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After reading through my review of Crossan’s The Historical Jesus: The Life of a Mediterranean Jewish Peasant and chatting with Jana about it, I realized that I missed a couple of key points:
I don’t necessarily agree with Crossan’s peasant cynic revolutionary rendition of Jesus. In the prologue, Crossan makes this pithy remark: “It is […]

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(completed: 932/9898 pages)
Done (woohoo!):

Out:

In:

I’ve made one change to the marathon: I’m swapping The Artist’s Way out and replacing it with Adobe Illustrator CS H.O.T (Hands On Training). I decided that the Artist’s Way program demanded far more time than I’m able to devote to it right now, and I’m excited about learning how to […]

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I left my programming cave for an excursion to the UCI bookstore. Classes start tomorrow, the temperature is almost in the nineties, and the frats and sororities have set up booths opposite each other in their effort to woo the beautiful and conforming (and to impress each other). I love women, especially beholding […]

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(completed: 249/9394 pages)
Woohoo! I’ve completed Mile One of my Reading Marathon! Only 25 more to go…
Those of you who follow this blog or who know me well may wonder why I picked a faith-promoting work like A Lively Hope: The Suffering, Death, Resurrection, and Exaltation of Jesus Christ to start my marathon (I […]

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I’ve decided to read a marathon.
Not run a marathon, though I’ve survived, just barely, a couple (I’ve heard from a marathoning mom that it’s the closest a man can come to understanding the pains of childbirth).
So here’s the scoop on my reading marathon: I plan to read 26 books in the 16 weeks […]

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