Unfinished Person

I’m keeping my blogging goals for 2010 simple:1. Consolidate my serious blogs (i.e. everything except Unfinished Rambler) into this blog here that you’re reading on WordPress.org by year’s end.2. No themed days, because I don’t seem to work very well with them. Motivation ...

Back in September, I mentioned writing down my dreams as suggested by Chip Ingram in his book Good To Great In God’s Eyes: Ten Practices Christians Have In Common. One of those ten practices is “Dream Great Dreams” and one of the action steps (at the end of each chapter) is to ...

“This is serious, dead serious.” - Philadelphia Eagles radio announcer on drive after Broncos scored to pull them within three of the Eagles, 27-24, this afternoon Things implied that are not “dead serious”: Afghanistan, Iraq, AIDs.

For this week’s Sleeping With Bread post (click on the badge at right for more information about the meme), I’m going to cut right to the chase.For what am I most grateful this past week?Online friends and acquaintances, namely three people (or groups) in particular:1. Traci Davis of...

Title: Poirot Loses A Client (aka Dumb   Witness)Author: Agatha ChristiePublication Year: 1937Pages: 234Genre: MysteryCount for Year: 53How I discoveredI have joined Kerrie from Mysteries in Paradise with her Agatha Christie Reading Challenge and this is part of that.The setupIn this intricate m...

“I think we’ve seen more willy here than we’ve seen all year.” - Pittsburgh Steeler radio announcer…um, yeah, talking about Willie Parker, although it didn’t sound like it if you just heard out of context

Yes, our local video store is offering FREE KIDS (See store for details, mentioned twice, in case you missed it the first time). My wife and I don’t have kids, but I don’t know if we’d pick them up there. Every time I’ve been to this particular store, the DVDs have been scratched and we had to ta...

Thomas Merton enters the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky. 1941.I saw this on a desk calendar at the hospice where I volunteer last Thursday, Dec. 10. Earlier that day, in meeting with my spiritual director, I discussed discerning whether or not I wanted to become a deacon in the Catholi...

Some of you may be wondering, “This guy calls himself a reading fool? Puh-leeaze. Who’s he kidding?”You’re right. However, I’d like to point to the title of my blog and the parentheses. Reading is within them, folks. Basically, I’m just a fool.However, in m...

It’s Sunday morning and earlier this morning (much earlier) I listened to a homily on EWTN for a daily Mass for Saturday from Alabama. In the homily, the priest discussed snow falling there and how the moisture seeps into the ground similar to God’s grace seeping into our souls.It got...

cattleprod: SPORTSLINE, PHILADELPHIA—In a move best described as ‘n00bish’ the Philadelphia 76’ers have signed former star guard and lockerroom suicide bomber Allen Iverson.

willdo: Michael Scott on Allen Iverson. From Season 1’s deleted scenes.

The Man, The Myth, The Legend, The Mouth returns to Philly. What are we talking about? Practice…we ain’t talking about the game. We’re talking about practice.

Yep, I’m lazy and combining posts today……from Thanksgiving to my “regularly scheduled” (ahem, if you’ve been here a while, it’s very “irregularly scheduled”) posts of Midweek Review and Flashback Friday and Library Loot (which I toss in every ...

Each Monday, a small group of ladies participate in the meme Sleeping with Bread, started by Mary-Lue and based off the book by the same name and on the Friday before that, I post something I call Flashback Friday (today on Sunday) as part of that. The meme is based on the Examen as practiced by ...

Heard on a local radio station an ad for a local newspaper (paraphrased): “When you think of Thanksgiving, you think turkey, football and… … …The Elmira Star-Gazette Thanksgiving edition.” Wife’s response: “You need something to wrap the turkey carcass in.”

Seen on the status of a friend of my real-life counterpart in recent days: “Yesterday was a good media day. Oprah did a decent interview with Palin and Lou Dobbs was on O’Reilly.” That retching sound you’re hearing now is me.

This is a combination of the past two week’s Library Loot actually. You may say, “That’s sad.” However, I have been sick with the flu (swine maybe) for the past few weeks and so haven’t been reading anything. Plus as I mentioned the last Library Loot I did at the end...

joeschmitt:@jesusandjudas get their own Tumblr!aedison:Oh hey! Look what got its own separate tumblr for me to ignore!PS. There’s also a twitter, so you can never miss a J+J.PPS: Yes, I know that J+J get liked and reblogged whenever I post them on my main account, and shuffling them off to their ...

acid42: Legion of Catholic Superheroes Found on Comic Book Characters Grouped by Religious Affiliation [via www.adherents.com ] Wow! I had  no idea. Did you?

I previously have written about this rock back last year on my running blog, then again in a reprint in July on this blog and referenced it in a post later that month. This morning, I found the rock underneath my desk and after I cleaned the cat hair off of it, I took the above photo.Rather than ...

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Sorry, But I'm Not A 'Twilight' Fan | Films | Love It | PRG: My sister says why she doesn’t like Twilight. I agree. I have no intention of reading the books or seeing the movies either. Too many other books out there.

acid42: mawidagdag: Ohh.. Win! Oops.

I just tallied up the number of books I’ve read and movies I’ve watched for the year, and I’m at 50 for each. Last year I read 70 books according to this, which also lists this year’s books read, and watched 68 movies according to this list I compiled on Listography.The li...

For this week’s Flashback Friday, during which I try to participate in the Sleeping with Bread meme with these fine ladies, I would like to be short for what I am grateful and not so grateful this week.Not gratefulThe main thing, of course, for which I’m not grateful, is the flu, whic...

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;where there is hatred, let me sow love;where there is injury, pardon;where there is doubt, faith;where there is despair, hope;where there is darkness, light;and where there is sadness, joy.O Divine Master,grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled a...

It’s been more than two months since my last Just A (Running) Fool post (and Motivation Monday post too). Today, hopefully I can begin a new streak of not only posting once a week for Just A (Running) Fool and Motivation Monday, but also exercising several times a week and continuing to mot...

Waving…“Hey, I’m still here.”Sorry, just been hanging out elsewhere the past week:Tuesday: Humor Bloggers Fantasy Football League Blog where I was playing Tuesday Morning Quarterback.Wednesday: Unfinished Rambler where I counted down The Top 10 Biblical Characters To Dress...