Fridays Are For One Question

Here we are in October, the month which, at least in my opinion, is the epicenter of the sports universe. You’ve got the baseball postseason virtually every night, the middle of the college football season, and the NFL all in full swing. It’s a great month, only missing March Madness. But I digress.
October always provides [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

The light-blogging week here at Forward Progress is due to a week spent in California. Our family was able to go to Legoland – an amusement park themed around Legos. Joshua loved it.
There was the 7 foot tall Lego Darth Vader. Also a life-size Lego Indiana Jones. And a scale model of New York City. [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

I live in an older house. We moved there on purpose with dreams dancing in my head about fixing up certain parts of it. Here’s the problem – my ineptitude with household tasks. I have trouble turning on a plunger, hammering in a light bulb, or snaking an electrical box (did I get that right?). [...]

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Friday’s Are For One Question

If I start thinking about the people who have dramatically influenced my life, probably only half of the people on that list I have actually met. Some were dead years before I was born, but their writing, ideas, policies, or commitments have taken hold inside me and shaped me into the person I’m still becoming.
So [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

I have taken to using a sharpie to write quotes on my desk, things that I want to remember almost on a daily basis. Here’s a few examples of what I see as I look over at the desk:
“We try to be too reasonable about what we believe. What I believe is not reasonable at [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

This week I watched Glee, a new comedy on Fox. And it was funny. It was also pretty dirty. I’m still sorting out how I feel about it, but that’s another post. This post is about singing, because the show is about a high school glee club. And evidently every episode is going to feature [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

Ahhh, Labor Day. Ironically, a day when we do not labor. It’s also the unofficial end of summer and beginning of fall. Great things are happening—football season, weather changing, school is back, football season, bar-b-que’s—any of which can make this Labor Day Weekend a good one for you. And that’s today’s question:
“What is the most [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

We had the sonogram yesterday which revealed the little boy that’s joining our family. We’re excited, though I admit, a little surprised. Jana alone thought it was a boy all along. I have to re-orient my thinking toward male rather than female.
Anyway, the name train has started rolling in full force. Joshua is pushing hard [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

My family and I have been watching with great interest the health care debate in the US right now (okay, Joshua and Andi have not been watching with great interest; but Jana and I have). And there are some passionate people making passionate statements from both sides of the aisle. Some of the more entertaining [...]

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Fridays Are For One Question

Overuse of exclamation points. There, I said it. I can’t stand exclamation overuse. Some people put an exclamation point after everything!
This soup is good!
I have to go to the bathroom!
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is awesome!
You might say the overuse of the exclamation point is a pet peeve of mine. How about you? That’s [...]

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