First Pitches: Cardinals’ Home Opener

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I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time. The Cardinals and the Memphis Redbirds’ home openers on the same day makes it a great day full of baseball. No one does Opening Day like the Cardinals, and it was especially amazing given the World Series win. Here’s the ceremonial first pitches by [...]

River Sunset

Mississippi River Sunset in Memphis

Jim and I both enjoy taking pictures. I’m always the one who begs for the group photo at family events. (I’m also usually vetoed.) So now we’re enjoying the fruits of our labor — we just invested in a Nikon D7000 digital SLR, a couple of lenses with numbers I don’t understand and one more [...]

Technology for Everyone: TechCamp Memphis

TechCamp Memphis

I love a good geek conference. Call it an unconference, a WordCamp, BarCamp, MobileCamp, SocialCamp … it’s a gathering of folks who want to talk and learn about technology and it puts me in a state of giddy, geeky glee. This is why I’m so excited about TechCamp Memphis, which is coming up on May [...]

Be Discipled, Make Disciples

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Devotional written for Memphis Center for Urban Theological Studies Each year, approximately 100 adventurous souls will set out to climb Mt. Everest, the highest point on earth. At 29,035 feet above sea level, the air on Everest is so thin that it cannot sustain human life. To date, more than 5000 people have summited Everest, [...]

It’s All In the Letting Go

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A very long time ago, when I had a tiny baby, someone told me that successful parenting is a series of letting go moments. I didn’t believe it then. But now that I’ve lived it, I know it’s true. I remember holding her, rocking her, inhaling the baby smells, feeling her little head nestling on [...]