Dear Awesome Levi, You Are Awesome. Thank You for Being Awesome.
Yesterday I received in the mail a very fun surprise indeed. A package from my friend Levi Simpson showed up in our mailbox. When I opened it I found, tightly shrink wrapped, the book Maps and Legends...
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Taken Saturday in Vancouver. Now I am in back in Starbuckia. The title of this post is a quote from A. E. Housman.
View ArticleBuried Treasure
Tonight while rummaging around on the dirty, unkempt bookshelves of a local Salvation Army I came across the sort of thing one always dreams about coming across in these situations but rarely does....
View ArticleA Book I Slaved Over Has Won an Award
The Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry and Writings has won the ECPA Christian Book Award in the category of Bible Reference and Study. Of course this book wasn’t by brainchild or...
View ArticleMy Scale Model of the Sears Tower (With Pictures!)
Ever since I went up the Sears Tower two summers ago, I’ve been fascinated by the architectural design of the thing. It’s built with what is called a bundled-tube structure, and consequently it...
View ArticleHello, My Lovelies
Thes first two volumes—We Believe in One God and We Believe in one Lord Jesus Christ, edited by Gerald Bray and John McGuckin respectively—of the Ancient Christian Doctrine series (five volumes total)...
View ArticleBrand New Human
I guess it would be kind of odd if my blog continued to hum along like life at my home hadn’t been turned upside down in the past week. Although the vast majority of readers here already know, I...
View ArticleGoodbye, IVP
So quiet around Mode of Expression lately. Today is my last day at IVP, and I’m just about to go out for lunch with my department to say goodbye. Tomorrow it’s off to Kansas for the rest of my life....
View ArticleThe Freelancing Life
Well, I have just finished and turned in my first project as a full-time freelancer, and it was, how do you say . . . a doozy. Not only did I have to pack all the allotted work time into less than a...
View ArticleWhat to Do if You Are Here Searching for Ben Gibbard
Probably you should just leave. Because you’re not going to find much of interest here. On this blog, I regularly get hits in the teens, maybe fifty or sixty—maybe a hundred if I generate some...
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