Now Blogging – Lora Thomas

What better way to make her brother’s evening? My sister started a blog! She’s on staff at Tall Timber Ranch this summer, working with kids at the camp we grew up going to.

Lora, I’m glad you’re in. Looking forward to reading it!

loraleone.wordpress.com

Keeping In Touch

It’s almost been a year since I left Logos Bible Software to start working at the INN. I’ve sort of slacked off about keeping in touch with my former co-workers, due to busyness and laziness. However, I try to keep up with the company on a fairly regular basis, through their business blog – blog.logos.com.

Bob Pritchett, the president of the company, has written a lot on the Logos blog, as well as his blog for Fire Someone Today, the book he released last year. Now, he’s relaunched his personal blog at www.bobpritchett.com/blog. It looks great, probably thanks to the great graphic designer at Logos. I’m interested to keep in touch with his thoughts on business, marketing, and entrepreneurship, especially because of my brief work I did with him at Logos and my own adventures into the small business world.

So, if you’re interested in a little business talk or just want to hear a good perspective on the technology business, check it out.

WWU Freshmen Blog

Do you remember your first year of college? How about your first year at Western Washington University? I know there’s a few alumni out there who might appreciate this: the WWU Freshmen First-Year blog.

As a part of their expanding first year programs, designed at connecting students with the campus community, working out the transition into school, and making connections with each other as students experiencing college together.

Check it out.

A Year of Blogging

Funny, last week was the 1-year anniversary of blogging for me. Check out the September 2005 Archive here to see what I was writing about way back then. It’s kind of funny, because the whole theme of transition and being in a state of painful progression hasn’t really left me yet. Will it ever? In some ways, I think so, but in most, I’m settling in to realization that part of life is learning to walk along through all the twists and turns in the road. God is a good guide.

For the Lord is good and His love endures forever. His faithfulness continues to all generations. – Psalm 100:5

PS: I read that Donald Miller book that I mentioned him reading from in the reading last September. That passage still really resounds with me.

AK Bound

In my last post, I mentioned that there were some exciting things coming up for this blog. Well, this is one of them. My parents are heading off to Alaska for the next month or so, taking a trip up the Alaska Highway. It’s a trip they’ve been planning on doing for years and are very excited about.

I have set up a blog for them, kind of a "parent blog?" (not really like a sister blog) to this site, where they will be posting stories and pictures from their trip as they go. They are going to be emailing me updates from the road, which I will post to their blog. If you are interested, please follow along with them at http://sethjames.blogs.com/alaskatrip.

It’s funny to think how Alaska has been taking people away from us this summer. Many friends are coming back from canneries and touring around this time of year, but now my parents are off to the Great White North and AK. I guess I need to get up there sometime.

Anyways, I’m excited to be helping my parents out with this one. Stop by their page and see what they are up to. They are leaving Edmonds tomorrow to come up and help my sister move and then they are off. Say a prayer for their safety and that they have an awesome time.

A Letter From A Concerned Friend

I just got an email from a good friend (Jesse) who offered to be my own personal blog critic. He notes that he reads this blog every day, but has little interest in continuing to read about just my beverage interests. Profoundly, he suggests that I continue with the same style of posts I’ve been doing (coffee, beer, web design, etc.), but also focus more on some important things, like what I think about the great books I’m reading (A Primer on Postmodernism and The Church on the Other Side), among other things.

Pardon my artistic attempt

I’ve been wanting to put together a little bit more "me" design for the blog. Here it is, hope you like it. I like the color brown, so yeah, I used it.