Reflections

Here I am blowing out my candles on my 28th Birthday. It was a great evening… but I’m freakin’ old now. I was born on Friday, January 13, 1978… and now it was another Friday the 13th, 28 years later… and it was a full moon too. Get social with us!

I sent the following text to my friends and family via email this Christmas. Call it cheap, but call it thoughtful. Here it is: Family and Friends, This year was spectacular indeed. I felt the need to share some of it with you, so I have included over 80 photos (with captions) this year as […]

On the evening of Wednesday, Nov. 30, I had the opportunity to dine with John Ashcroft. Yep, that’s right, he sat across the table from me at dinner. We shared a meal. Me, Aschcroft, my colleague Matt (pictured) and about 7 other folks from Columbia University. The dinner took place shortly before Ashcroft spoke to […]

On Thursday, I entered the last state in the northeast corridor of the United States, Maine. It was the 30th U.S. state I have visited in my lifetime (I snuck over the border of Vermont on the same day, from Hanover, NH – that was #29). So, I arrived at Bates College… it was a […]

I only had 2 days “in the office” this week, and then I was off to Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH for an ISI Cicero’s Podium Debate between Harvey Mansfield of Harvard and Professor Peter Travis, (English Professor) of Dartmouth on the topic, “Is Manliness a Virtue in a Free Society?” This was a great […]

On Saturday, I flew back to the East Coast. It was a long 5-hour flight and I made it back to my apartment about 10:30pm EST on Saturday… and I ordered a pizza and went to bed. A long 13-day journey to many places. Oregon, Washington state, and Southern California. I had met with people […]

On my last night in Beverly Hills, Ryan Sorba and I hit the town. We went out in style and it was well-deserved by the end of my trip. Also, Ryan made an hour drive from San Bernardino (right after class) to meet up with me. And, I think the L.A. traffic was actually longer […]

On Friday, my last full day of being an ISI missionary to the Left coast, I spent about four hours (yes 4) of my day at UCLA. What a nice campus, and what a location. It’s in an area of L.A. called “Westwood”, and literally just a mile or so from Beverly Hills. The campus […]

So after I went to Hollywood, I quickly got out of town. Seriously. I took a drive up to Bakersfield, CA which took me almost 2 hours there and only about 90 minutes back. Once you get out of L.A., you just fly… and you go through some very scenic mountains, with almost no population. […]

So, one thing you realize once you hit L.A. is that the culture isn’t exactly moral. But, then you get stuck in traffic (possibly for hours) and you start flipping around the radio stations. And, you come to 99.5 FM, a Christian radio station, where they play good Christian music and then mix in Christian […]