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Boy House Rules

March 26, 2009

One of the Maker’s self-portraits In 2003 my house was insane. Our boys were 7, 5, and 3. Loud, dirty, and broken was the theme in our little suburban casa. One day after some routine parenting repeating something for the eight thousandth time, I realized I was becoming a rulebot. I began to form this [...]

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Back in the Ring

March 23, 2009

Back in the Ring from Lisa Creech Bledsoe on Vimeo. Exactly six weeks to the day post rib-fracture I had the chance to get back in the ring. I showed up Sunday about 10:40 am to warm up, and worked out hard until noon. By then several of my team members had arrived and there [...]

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The Pink Pantsuit

January 24, 2009

Photo by vertcerise on Flickr When I was about eight years old my great-grandmother gave me a pink pantsuit that she had lovingly sewn by hand just for me; it was a cotton-synthetic mix, required no ironing, and was precisely the color of a cat’s tongue. I was in a private elementary school and in [...]

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Why We Don’t Have a TV

September 17, 2008
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How long is a moment?

August 26, 2008

This reads like it was a short conversation, but there were long (5-10 second) pauses between each question and response. * * * The Maker: A moment is a space of time. Dad: How big a space of time? TM: As big as you want. D: Is a year a moment? TM: Yeah. It’s possible [...]

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pocket contents, the Maker

July 1, 2008

5 paper clips1 pirate tattoo11 plastic test tubes2 interesting rocks2 rolls of caps1 American Express card magnet5 can tabs1 cardboard disk (What, no amphibians?)

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It’s my blogiversary!

January 7, 2008

Happy blogiversary to me / happy blogiversary to meHappy blogiversary to me / happy blogiversary to me My blog is one year old today, and my how we’ve grown. The name went from Wishful Blogging (because, I figured, talking about blogging is so much easier than actually blogging) to The Glowing Edge, a move which [...]

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dreamy daddy-o

January 6, 2008

Tonight I dug out a packet of old photos that my grandfather gave me about eight years ago. At the time I had it in my mind to scan them in and return them to him, but I never managed to do it. This one is my own father as a teenager, probably around 1960. [...]

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Our Wedding Photos (all 11)

October 13, 2007

I know y’all have been waiting, like, for a really loooong time for me to get our wedding photos uploaded so you can see them. Well the wait is over. Here’s all eleven of those shots from that famous fifteen minutes in 1987 that changed the world. (If you can’t see them above, click over [...]

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found, before laundering, in the Ice’s pockets

August 26, 2007

1. One orange rock2. A nickel3. One can tab4. One empty Domino sugar packet5. List of all the songs from worship this morning (he ran the slides)6. One stick-on tattoo7. Size 14 jeans sticker8. Weekly chore list9. Scrap of paper with two computer passwords

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