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Book review: The Light in the Lake
As I was writing my family’s 2022 annual report last year, I was thinking of all the people I would send it to, and I got to thinking about an old college friend of mine, Sarah Baughman. I had kept in contact with her a bit over the years, but hadn’t talked to her in…
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Don’t walk around with empty hands
In the winter of 1999, I worked as a rough carpenter for about 5 weeks. I was going to be studying in Germany for a semester, and I had a couple months off before I left. My dad used a connection at church to get me a job for a little while to earn a…
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Design details
I just moved into a new house. Much of the furniture from my old apartment didn’t really fit in the new place, so I ended up getting quite a bit of new stuff. Actually, my wife and I mostly got new-to-us used vintage furniture, mostly very cheap. We have been scouring the local classifieds for…
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Weeds?
The neighbor across the street from my apartment planted some Fox Glove , which some people consider a weed. This is actually a pretty common practice in Germany, where people will plant some flowers right up against their building. Before it started flowering, another neighbor was kidding him about not weeding by his house, and…