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My Last Blog Post

by Shawn December 17, 2012
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(The photo is of me breaking the sound barrier on a tricycle during our annual trek to the mountains. I chose this photo because most times this is how my life feels: exhilarating, slightly painful, and more than slightly out-of-control.) So I’ve decided to stop blogging. It’s been a much more difficult decision than you [...]

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Crisco: Superman’s Weakness

by Shawn December 14, 2012
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Today I’m posting over at Deeper Church. The post is called “When Crisco is Kryptonite and Candles are Stars.” Here’s a taste: The kitchen is an explosion of flour and sugar. Cade, Lucy, Abra and Sam sound like chattering monkeys. It is cookie-making day. Mouths are streaked with chocolate from smuggled chocolate chips. Sam hides [...]

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The Whiny Voices of Anti-Adventure

by Shawn December 13, 2012

Today I’m guest posting over at Ed Cyzewski’s blog about “Five Things That 10,000 Miles Taught Me About Being a Father”: I’ve been trying and failing and trying again at this “Dad” thing for the last ten years, through four children, two continents, seven houses, and a big blue bus. I’ve changed thousands of diapers, [...]

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What Kind of a God

by Shawn December 13, 2012

An excerpt from How to Use a Runaway Truck Ramp (this section was written by Maile): So tonight, we begin the final leg of our journey.  Two nights ago, Shawn and I sat across from each other (he on the couch, me in the booth) and decided that his grandma’s failing health was the call [...]

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The Isolation that Comes With So-Short Days

by Shawn December 12, 2012
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In the summer, when everything is cloaked in heat waves that squirm up off the pavement, I feel very much part of the physical world around me. Somehow the warm temperatures glue all the molecules together. I am not only me, but I am also the ground I walk on, the sky above me, and [...]

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A Christmas Decree

by Shawn December 12, 2012
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Some excerpts from posts in the world wide web that got my attention in the last week: Does this way we celebrate Jesus’ birth shout love, grace and peace or does it leave the have-nots feeling more empty, more alone and more broken than ever? * * * * * The days truly are evil [...]

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When Choice Equals Less Freedom

by Shawn December 11, 2012

“In Schwartz’s estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more dissatisfied.”

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