Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was the Night Frankly, dear readers, this was a tough year. Hella tough. Every year, around Christmas, I've...

Here is a post I wrote last year for advent. Back then, almost nobody read my blog; it's a long post, but I'm also more proud of thi...

Lately, the cause of consternation back home has been the condition of Roboseyo's faith. The last things I wrote here about faith were ...

I was the best man at my brother's wedding. Here was my toast for him and his wonderful wife, Caryn. Dan And Caryn Ouwehand's Wed...

You may remember I went through a rough patch in late 2005/early 2006: losing your mom, and then breaking up with The Reason You Moved Acros...

Finally: yes, it's true. Fall is gasping into winter here in Korea. Last night I chatted with friends, eating sushi, and looked out the ...

I've decided, in a similar spirit to people choosing to read their old diaries, and see what insights/points/issues defined them at some...

It's been a miserable, white-knuckled fight with a cold for me these last two months (that's the knock-down, drag-out in the subje...

OK. Fully aware that the last e-mail was a downer (so much so that I've received about a third of the normal number of responses to my ...

This one got more and more personal as I went on, so pardon the initial cuteness; I decided halfway through that it was only going out to ...

Hi everybody. This is personal news, but I'm writing a bulk (ish) e-mail (note the streamlined "to" list) because I don't ...