Last Sunday (a week ago), I was wrenched awake at 2:30am by the smoke alarm right outside our bedroom. I ran to the sound, not knowing what to expect, and what I found was… nothing. Only the alarm is on a 10-foot ceiling, so I had to find something to stand on in order to [...]

…was fantastic. We stayed in Chico, which is way up in northern Cali – about 90 minutes north of Sacramento or 8 hours north of Los Angeles. It was a week of great physical exercise and extraordinary gastronomic delights. I played 3-on-3 basketball with people who were way out of my league (almost all of [...]

I found this fat, furry guy sitting in our yard this evening.  As long as he’s getting fat on our grass (& very plentiful dandelions) and not on our squash and zucchini plants, he’s welcome to stay. On another note, Shortstat says my blog has now had visitors from each of the following non-US locales: [...]

Currently listening: Passion – Everything Glorious My mom recently shared this story with me. I have met this man, and I think that until recently he would have confidently stated that God no longer does this sort of thing: Pastor [name] just came back from [an Asian nation of >1.3 billion people]. He got to [...]

This closet door in our apartment building was the hapless victim of drunken party-goers. Who knows where the rest of the door went. Ripped off its hinges and taken as a souvenir, I imagine. -T