November 2008
9 posts
I am a winner!
I won with 50,578 words, with two days to spare. (I wrote around 4500 words on November 28 and crossed the finish line then).
I learned a TON doing NaNoWriMo and I will share my learnings with with soon. Also, I realize that regular readers probably have several questions about this process: what is my novel about, is it based on real events, is anyone Steve knows “in” the...
abundant life
Churches and Christian organizations are often trying to boil down the basics in a way that is memorable for their constituencies.
I’ve been thinking about that lately and have come up with my own list - what I would recommend to a Christian (new or long-time) in terms of what kind of life to lead.
Jesus said he came that we might have life - abundant life. How then should we live?
Live beyond...
giftedness
Last night I went to a high school in Boulder to hear an expert speak on the unique emotional lives of the gifted. I’ve heard that this area has more PhD’s per capita than anywhere else in the country but what I didn’t know was that, according to the speaker, our area has more resources for equipping gifted children than anywhere else in the world. I had no idea!
Linda Silverman coined the...
casa de humongous-ness
Last night the college faculty & staff and their families were invited to a celebration dinner at Casa Bonita, a large mexican restaurant near Denver. The inside of the restaurant is 52,000 square feet and is designed to look like a Mexican village at night. They can seat 1,100 people!
We had a great time and enjoyed the waterfall, the divers, the fire-juggler, the arcade and exploring all...
the brain is very good at deluding itself
Attention, multi-taskers. Yes, you. You know who you are. You’re reading this entry while you’re watching TV or looking at something in another browser window.
A recent study shows that people aren’t as good at multitasking as they think that they are. That is to say, the brain is pretty darn good at deluding itself into thinking that it is being more productive at multitasking than is...
