Author: Robert

i just received my amazon associate report and looks like i could start making a living rom this blogging thing. i’ve earned a whopping $3.58 over the past year. yep, that should support the family for a while.

i guess i should post some more links if i am really going to get any click throughs and have anyone buy a book through my amazon associate account. here are the books i have been reading lately.

• exclusion & embrace: a theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation by miroslav volf – a difficult but very good read. volf is awesome.
• your GOD is too safe: rediscovering the wonder of a GOD you can’t control by mark buchanan – we went through this in our small group. we then went through another buchanan book, “things unseen: living in light of forever.” i enjoyed this book but i was the only one in the small group who did.
• mere CHRISTianity by c.s. lewis – we are going through this now in our small group. oh how i love lewis … and the small group that i am a part of.
• the roundtable pulpit by john mcclure – dr. mcclure has helped me a little with the dissertation/project for my d.min. his book is really good (though the cover looks pretty stupid). a wonderful book on collaboration in preaching.

other recent terrell buys from amazon.

• logitech tablet keyboard for ipad – this was noah thing. i tried to convince him to get a keyboard case instead but he doesn’t like them for some reason.
• asus transformer tablet – this was adam’s graduation present along with the keyboard dock. we talked and figured out that a tablet desktop combination was probably better for his college experience than a laptop would be. i’m a little jealous.

now go buy some of this crap … i mean great stuff … so i can get a little more amazon love.

i am presently on the downhill slide of writing the final project proposal for my d.min dissertation/project. so i’m taking a few moments away from working on the questionnaire that i will use to quantify the study and writing a few random thoughts.

• wordless jazz, classical, ambient or foreign music are the only things that seems to work for me when i am studying. music with words just seems to get in the way of my mind.
• after 8 months of not running more than 40 miles a month i believe i am finally back in the training groove. this is great because my goal is to PR at the whistlestop marathon in ashland, wi in october. pam and i are excited about this because it will be a good chance to see adam at northland college.
• speaking of which, i can’t believe that adam is graduating this week. how can he be old enough to go to college? parenting has made me more and more thankful for my parents. right now i am just very thankful that they didn’t completely lose it when i graduated and went away to school. i am not sure i will be able to do the same thing.
• every now and then i miss seeing johnny b. it would be a lot of fun to hang out with him for a little while right now. maybe go on a bus ride for an afternoon like we did once in baton rouge.
• i used the word epaulette today in a digital message. not sure why but i find that oddly pleasing.
• it is funny how your body can so thoroughly adjust to its environmental context. saturday i was roasting in the 88 degree weather while i ran. 5 years ago in baton rouge i would have thought it was a very pleasant day for a run.
• btw, when did it become summer in wisconsin? aren’t we still supposed to be in the season of spring?

spent the morning with eric g trying to find northerns. we found a few. not an amazing day of fishing but not a bad one. a nice way to spend a morning.