Flamin’ bus is late
Dunedin has a fairly elderly fleet of buses, but at least they don’t burst into flames with alarming frequency as do the buses in Rome: Why do Rome’s buses keep catching fire? (BBC)
Links
Amygdalae and blogging
The telling of stories helps us to rewire the brain and reattach emotional significance to the memories we have. The act of being creative helps to balance the tendency to over-rely on logic as a […]
Small b
I’m interested in encouraging people to blog, in whatever way works for them. I recently found the following post which does just that: Small b blogging by Tom Critchlow
Works we will not finish
I highly recommend this post about the unfinished business of our lives and fulfilling the calling of Christ. The call to the disciples was never Follow me to power, or Follow me to prosperity, or […]
Anorexic web writing
A good article on some of the things that make web writing insipid and inspiration to do better: Reviving Anorexic Web Writing by Amber Simmons (2007)
On editing harshly
I came across an interesting little post about how to write (and edit) a blog post which is fairly realistic about how the process really happens. I’m not quite as rigorous on the editing now […]
Facebook targeting teens
This article about one of Facebook’s recent experiments made me seriously reconsider whether I am willing to continue using the social network when they are researching how to target people in their weakest moments: Welcome […]
What it means to be fully human
Profound words from an advocate for the mentally disabled To be fully human is really to discover who I am. And who am I? I’m a member of the huge human family, where we’re all […]
Bringing a daughter back from the brink with poems
A beautiful article about how a Mom put poems in her daughter’s shoes when she was going through a period of despair: Before she went to school in the morning, I wanted her to read […]
