From the category archives:

Deep Thoughts

One Year

February 26, 2010

It’s been almost an entire year, almost to the hour as I write this, since Galadriel passed away. Six months ago, I tried to write about how I felt at that point, and utterly failed. But in many ways, that posting wasn’t an utter failure, because everything that I wrote in it was true. I [...]

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John Galt Speaking

February 9, 2010

The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it’s yours. But to win it requires total dedication and a total break with the world of your past, with the doctrine that man is sacrificial animal who exists for the pleasure of others. Fight for the value of your [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 25, 2009

Along the road to Damascus the light shone brightly. But afterward Paul of Tarsus, too, was sore afraid. He feared that other Caesars, other prophets, might one day persuade men that man was nothing save a servant unto them, that men might yield up their birthright from God for pottage and walk no more in [...]

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Thirty-Eight

November 25, 2009
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We all have people who touch our lives in many ways. One of those folks was Mike Casalini, the first manager I had at Target that took me under his wing and mentored me professionally. When I was just an hourly employee, Mike saw in me some sort of future potential and helped me discover [...]

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I still remember

September 11, 2009

Lt. Ray Murphy, FDNY, who died on 9/11 at the World Trade Center.

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Remember

September 11, 2009

I said everything that I think I will ever have to say about 9/11 four years ago: In the end, I think we all have the responsibility to remember what happened that day – to us – to our fellow man – here in our own country. A few weeks ago, while having coffee with [...]

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Memorial Day 2009

May 25, 2009

I’m a third generation Boy Scout. Like my father and grandfather before me, I chose to stay the course and complete the requirements to become an Eagle Scout. Each Eagle must complete, as a part of the requirements for the rank, a project involving community service and leadership of others. While my own project isn’t [...]

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Dear Dad, with love

March 16, 2009

Over at Science Blogs, Abel reflects on the 12th anniversary of his father’s death: It was out there, in the darkness between Denver and Albuquerque, that I believe we had our last discussion, maybe a year after you died. I was camping alone, without a tent, in the cool dry Western night marveling at the [...]

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