To understand me, you’ve got to know something about basketball.
When I was a kid, I loved basketball. I would play all day, and on the weekends I would watch it on TV. But I remember, about halfway through my … Read the rest “A story of the will: Ernie Johnson, Jr.”
When Americans go to live overseas, it is usually because of their job. They go there to work, and for most of us, the arrangement is temporary. When we know that we are transient, it is easy to get into … Read the rest “10 Manly habits for a balanced life overseas”
This post is something of a personal memoir; if you have no interest in reading about popular music from the 1990s and 2000s, feel free to skip this one.
I can vaguely remember, about 24 years ago, hearing “The Freshmen” … Read the rest “Alternative rock: the culture that leads to death?”
How do you get your news?
Most of us don’t really think about it. We turn on the television and get fed whatever the networks think we ought to hear. Podcasts offer a different experience entirely. It’s like stepping back … Read the rest “6 Podcasts for diverse perspectives on current events”
“You will realize that other people just don’t have the freedoms that we have,” said my dinner host as we sat down to eat.
I was young — 22, just out of college, and getting ready to go overseas for … Read the rest “Four things people might not like about the “land of the free””
I wrote at length about what I call the Millennial Myth yesterday and how feeding the myth is destructive to our relationships and culture. Today, I was able to find the above video, which captured the essence of my point … Read the rest “The Manipulation Behind the Millennial Myth”
There is a glut of material floating around the interwebs about the so-called millennial generation and how the entire generation is little more than an impedance to the progress of the human race. The fact that the entire generation — … Read the rest “A new perspective on the millennial myth”
When I bought my last phone, I did very little research. I had heard that Apple had just launched a new model called the iPhone SE, and I knew it was for me. See, the iPhone 5 had been my … Read the rest “A new perspective on your smart phone: lose it.”
I’ve been a Falcons fan for as long as I can remember. When the Superbowls came each year, I’d always just pick the team with the best jerseys or the player that I liked the most; I never could find … Read the rest “3 ingredients for turning defeat into victory”
Where’s Sarajevo?
That was going through my head one day in 2003 when someone told me I should go there. Our organization was sending young recent graduates there to work with young people. Go, work, live, play, he said, and … Read the rest “A new perspective on change: The grass isn’t always greener”
