November 28, 2012
Shortly after we have all trampled, kicked and karate-chopped people to get to that 40-percent-off plasma TV, one of the biggest service months of the year begins. December is the time of year for giving, or at least that’s what all our church leaders, favorite cartoon characters and parents have said to us growing up. [...]
Over the weekend, I realized something that kind of surprised me. I like watching the Canadian Football League. A lot. In the past, I’ve watched a few CFL games. When I was growing up, my brother knew a guy who played for the British Columbia Lions, so their games were broadcast on the local stations. [...]
Continue reading …Has this ever happened to you? You’re a girl (which I know rules out about half of you), and you’re on a date, and the guy pulls into your driveway driving a souped-up, white, lifted Ford truck. He jumps the eight feet to the pavement, kicks the dirt off his dressy Pumas and checks his [...]
Continue reading …Over the past few weeks, there seems to have been a recurring theme in my life — or at least in my lessons and readings. A couple weeks ago, we watched a video in my SOC 1010 class called “Tim Wise: On White Privilege.” In his lecture, Wise doesn’t hold back on pointing out all [...]
Continue reading …It’s amazing what athletes are capable of doing during a game when they are “in the zone.” When one hears the saying “in the zone,” it is usually accompanied with a notable athletic performance from a team or an individual player. Last Tuesday night, Jack Taylor was probably in the zone. The 5-foot-10-inch sophomore from [...]
Continue reading …Poor Thanksgiving. We hardly knew ye. I remember the first year that my mother and grandmother prepared for Black Friday on Thanksgiving evening. Keep in mind that this is back in the day when The Junction was the Ogden Mall. That’s where they were going. They wanted to wake up at 4 in the morning [...]
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