Update: Mariano Rivera declares he will come back – perhaps this season . Yesterday the great, sublime, surreal… Mariano Rivera, the great, sublime, surreal… relief pitcher of the New York Yankees tore his ACL in a freak accident while catching fly balls in the outfield before the game. Almost as bracing as the injury itself [...]
Soccer, Candy Land style
April 21, 2012 By 2 Comments
On being an absolute ass
April 19, 2012 By 124 Comments
You know those days that are ruined by chance encounters with asses of the human variety? They appear with stunning unpredictability — at Starbucks, a doctor’s office, your office, your son’s soccer game. If it was the latter and you were in Charlotte, North Carolina this past Saturday around 11am at the field by 277 [...]
2011 – annus horibilis? annus mirabilis.
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
In late 1992, Queen Elizabeth II gave a speech in which she concluded that year – in which Diana wrote a tell-all book, Sarah was photographed topless with a guy sucking on her toes, Windsor Castle burned and various other indignities were suffered – was annus horribilis, literally, the ‘year of horrors.’ I remembered that [...]
Aidan’s bear
February 3, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Yesterday, my daughter, Livvy and I headed to Build-a-Bear Workshop to get a small bear for my four-year-old son, Aidan. All members of the Kuo clan have a bear with a little speaker in it that holds a short personalized message from me. All except Aidan. So after snatching Livvy from school we ended up [...]
A student
January 31, 2012 By 1 Comment
I know very, very little about almost anything. My earthly dad would be proud of that sentence. I could hear him saying, at nearly 90, “Ahhhhh Da-wei [my Chinese name], now you really know something.” Maybe my heavenly Dad would feel the same way. The truth is though, I’m not really sure. I don’t know [...]
CH501 – in six weeks
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
I’ve got till 3/16 to do 2,000 pages of reading – bad year not to have entered that reading contest some friends put on – write three papers and generally be introduced to the first 1500 years of church history. I think that’s right. But then, next week two other courses start, each with 2,000 [...]
the long obedience delayed
January 30, 2012 By Leave a Comment
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