Books, books, and more books
Well, I didn’t start the year with an aim to accomplish this, but I’ve read over 100 books this year. People ask me how I find the time to do it. Truth is that I…
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Thanksgiving Grace
Bless, O Lord, this food we are about to eat; and we pray you, O God, that it may be good for our body and soul; and, if there is any poor creature hungry or…
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Problems of the Privileged
A friend of mine was playing golf at her country club when she began to recognize a disturbing pattern: there were a lot of complaints about meaningless things. I asked for more detail, and she…
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Simply Jesus, by N.T. Wright
Later this week I’ll be attending an event at the Newbigin House in San Francisco with N.T. Wright as the keynote speaker. I’ve read previous books by Wright, and enjoyed them, so I picked up…
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The D’Oliva Olive Oil second harvest!
This past Saturday was the second annual olive harvest for D’Oliva! It was a great deal of fun to have friends and family come out to help. D’Aun did a great job of coaxing 282…
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Go Like Hell!
How could I resist a book titled Go Like Hell? Actually, the full title of this book by A.J. Baime is Go Like Hell: Ford, Ferrari, and Their Battle for Speed and Glory at Le…
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Goble Family History
I wrote the article below for an upcoming issue of the Goble Family Association newsletter. Yes, there really is such an organization! They were extremely helpful when we did our genealogical research, and they were…
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How I Sold Car Parts to Steve Jobs (okay, so probably not, but still…)
Walter Isaacson is one of my favorite biographers. His books about Einstein, Kissinger, and Benjamin Franklin are fantastic. So last summer when I heard that he would be writing a book titled Steve Jobs, I…