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About Me

I was raised in southeastern Ohio, which is accurately referred to as Appalachian Ohio. I went to college in Tennessee, where the culture was pretty much the same as what I'd grown up with, despite the refusal of people in both places to believe that. I backed into librarianship as a career, and it's worked out quite well for me. Since the summer of 1985 I've lived in Chicago, having figured out that cities aren't the evil places I'd always been told they were. My wife Cheryl and I celebrated our 14th anniversary in May. We go to LaSalle Street Church, which is a somewhat unusual church in that our doctrinal stances are fairly mainstream among evangelicals (whatever that means now, exactly) but we have a strong emphasis on ministry in our community. We have started, over the years, a legal aid clinic for people who can't afford lawyers, a counseling center, a day care center, an alternative high school, a senior center, and a weekly meal program. Our worship services emphasize music and the arts. We are a non-demoninational church, so our congregation is made up of people from all kinds of backgrounds -- Methodists, Baptists, Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Calvinists, what have you.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Barack Obama, Bruce Cockburn, Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, Desmond Tutu, Itzhak Perlman, Anne Tyler, Over the Rhine, the list goes on.

My Blog

Blog

I got your blog right here!I've been pretty much ignoring MySpace, since most of the people I know seem to be much more active on Facebook right now. With Facebook's current Terms Of Service issues, t...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:39:00 GMT

Catching up

I've been back from the Boundary Waters trip of September 13-20 for -- what -- nine days now. I've been pretty busy since that time, trying to get things cleaned up, organized and put away, catching u...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:50:00 GMT

My life lately

The last month has been pretty busy, for various reasons. Thus, no blog entries during that time. One big reason for that is that I've become more active on MySpace's rival, Facebook. That's mostly be...
Posted by on Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:04:00 GMT

Career stuff

Well, the big news is that Cheryl has taken a new job, which she will start in two weeks. She's going to be the director of the Belle Center of Chicago, a small agency (six employees) that provides ed...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:19:00 GMT

What I’ve been doing lately

So, I've neglected this blog for a while. Things have been really busy for the last few weeks, and it's just starting to settle down a little. For three weeks, I had something going on in the evening ...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:25:00 GMT

Health

I just updated my status to say I'm home and uncomfortable. Just so nobody will jump to any wrong conclusions, let me say I'm physically uncomfortable, while not actually sick or anything. I've had a ...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 20:39:00 GMT

Keeping my hand in

I took an online survey yesterday in which I said I update my blog monthly. Since it's now been almost a month since my last entry, and I have some time right now, it seems like as good an opport...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:04:00 GMT

Songwriting

Okay, so, like I said, I always have mixed feelings about taking a songwriting class, because on the one hand I feel pressure to get something done each week, but on the other hand, I usually DO get s...
Posted by on Thu, 29 May 2008 17:32:00 GMT

Busy

It's been a really busy month and a half or so, what with two trips out of town, starting a class at the Old Town School, and weeknight choir practices in preparation for a gospel music festival at La...
Posted by on Thu, 15 May 2008 17:39:00 GMT

Digital Photos

Had a day off today, so I used it to finish figuring out how to burn CDs with our new computer. I shot about 300 pictures on our recent two-week vacation to Arizona and Utah. (Shot most of them at the...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 20:33:00 GMT