Monthly Archives: January 2006

Memory, Autobiography, and The Road Not Taken

January 31, 2006
By now just about everyone reading this blog has heard about the big scandal involving best-selling author James Frey and his memoir, A Million Little Pieces. In a lengthy expose, The Smoking Gun confirmed what others had suspected: Some events in the book were either creative embellishments or complete fiction–in other words, lies. Since then, Oprah phoned Larry King to defend Frey, after which she invited Frey back on her own show to give him a public spanking. A lot of journalists and
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Quick Update – Ben Is Doing Fine

January 30, 2006
Thanks to everyone who has offered thoughts and prayers during Ben’s surgery today. Everything went well…
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Ben’s T & A Journey

January 26, 2006
On Monday Ben goes in for a little surgery to have his tonsils and adenoids removed and a new set of ear tubes inserted. He’s excited about all of the popsicles and juice boxes he’ll be allowed to have afterwards, but I don’t think he’s quite understanding the pain that he’ll be experiencing. And I’m glad for that, since knowing will only compound the problem by adding a few days of emotional anguish in front of the week or more of physical suffering…
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Favorite Music of 2005

January 19, 2006
Over the past year, I’ve listened to a lot of new music, most of which, regrettably, I haven’t liked very much. Because I have my headphones on during much of the day at work, I burn through music pretty quickly. Even though by now I should be content with the music I have, sometimes nothing in my library will do. So I get suggestions from friends, scour the list of new albums at metacritic.com, read Paste Magazine, download the podcast of All Songs Considered, and look out for “best of” lists at the end of the year. Here are a few of the albums that rose to the top of my personal playlist…
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Clothes Encounters of the Carpetbagging Kind

January 9, 2006
Here’s one for the why-didn’t-I-think-of-that category: the Laundry Rug Bag, which sells…
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Bible in 90 Days

January 2, 2006
One of the more interesting projects that I’ve had the privilege of being involved in (albeit in the tiniest of ways) at work was the website we put together for Zondervan, a Christian communications and publishing company. They just published a newly repackaged Bible, The Bible in 90 Days, and wanted an online resource for it…
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