Fiction Tuesday – Prismatic

Jeremy climbed the steps after Ama, uncertain what to expect at the end of the climb. As he completed his ascent and turned the corner he couldn’t help but let out a small gasp. Ama had led Jeremy into a restaurant which took up almost a full block of Settlement’s rooftops, terraced toward the street…

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An unexpected interlude

Yesterday was an unusual Sunday morning. The kids were away at their grandparents, and my wife was down in Williamsburg for their Teacher’s Institute. Also, there was no Sunday school so I had an extra forty-five minutes of actual free-time in the morning. So I did something I’ve never done before on a Sunday Morning….

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Give me no titles

Last week I found myself in an email exchange with someone who was looking to hold a memorial service at Central for someone who’d been a member hear years ago but had moved away. I always sign my emails as “Wes,” so that is how she began to address me in our exchange. Apparently, she…

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Contested Boundaries – wonderfully complex history

Last Summer I picked up [Contested Boundaries: Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World](Itinerancy and the Reshaping of the Colonial American Religious World) at the Williamsburg bookstore. I typically save one of my purchases to read at the beginning of the following Summer, and this was the work which fell to the…

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Exploring cloud backup with Pogoplug

This past year I’ve been working to wean myself off of 3rd cloud storage in favor of cloud storage I actually own. There’s something good about having physical access to the places where my data is kept. Still, I have been in the market for cloud-based backup service which is not free. Gobs and gobs…

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Seven months in – A reflective look ahead

I’m not certain what I was expecting when I began this “blog every day” journey. It was inspired by my friend, Jamison, who felt a challenge to create “something” every day of 2015. This blog had been sitting idle and it pushed me to move ahead and simply write. I’m now in my seventh month…

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