I was feeling old and paralyzed last night as I drove home. It was my daughter’s second birthday (she has officially graduated from tiny baby to little person). It had been a typical case-of-the type of Monday; I was feeling ambivalent about the job that I like alright but don’t see myself doing forever. I [...]
I’ve been running a Dune book club over at dunecember.com since December, in case you didn’t know. We (and I) just finished the book this week, and I wrote a looooong recap of the last 50 pages and discussed it a bit. I had some more that I wanted to share with regards to my [...]
Hey Ryan, what have you been up to lately?
A bunch of stuff, actually:
Dunecember
I started a Dune Book Club for the months of December and January. There’s a blog, a twitter account and some other links. We’re only about 80 ages in at this point, so it is still very easy for you to join.
Mixtape
I did [...]
I’ve never been much for 8-track tapes. I grew up listening to my parents’ records, then graduated to recordings of those records on cassettes. Eventually I was buying my own Christian music tapes and then CDs (both Christian and *gasp* non-). I amassed quite a collection of CDs in the last twelve years. Right now, [...]
A collection of my tweets from the Philip Glass/LA Phil Hollywood Bowl concert with slideshow and download. Link
In which I discuss things that you, dear reader, should do this summer.
Here comes a big wrapup and here’s why I haven’t blogged post. Plus links to all the other places you can find me online. Stalker. (link)
An open letter to the Saddleback Valley News editorial team re: the terrible job they did on Friday, April 24.
A recent post on the Official White House blog got me thinking that, along with me, Barack Obama is irked by mindless disagreement. Read more
Yesterday I got the mundane stuff out of the way. Lose weight, eat right, get organized. Now I want to talk about things that I have been wanting to do for a while that I am now deciding to actually do consistently. Here goes: