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Oct 03 2015
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Nepal: From desert to crest

Nepal? How did this happen?

Apparently I’m going to Nepal and trekking up to Everest Base Camp. Read that with an inflection of disbelief and you’ll hear just how it sounds in my brain as the thought flickers by throughout the day. I am not someone who climbs mountains. I avoid camping. And though I may have my Colorado citizenship revoked for revealing this, I’ve hiked exactly one 14-er (14,000 ft. mountain, of which Colorado has more than any other state) in my life.

But several months ago a casual friend included my husband and I on an e-mail blast invitation to his next trip to Nepal. He’s a national-level photographer, and as circumstances worked it, my husband had a break at work just when the trip was scheduled.

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Jul 03 2015
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Work samples

Work Samples

I write on a variety of topics including technology, current events, health, culture, and entertainment.

HEALTH
TheAtlantic.com April 2015: Mentally Ill in a High Stakes Job

JOURNAL PIECES
Poor Yorick Journal, Skull Talk Blog, April 2015: Bridges Among Death, Time, and Art
Poor Yorick Journal, March 2015: Rediscovered Stories: Returning to Reverence with the Amur Leopard
Poor Yorick Journal, Flashes of Past, Nov 2014: Let Your Imagination Be Your Guide
Poor Yorick Journal, Skull Talk Blog, Oct 2014: The Birth of Las Vegas at the Old Mormon Fort

TECHNOLOGY JOURNALISM
Contributing writer, TMCnet.com           

ENTERTAINMENT REPORTING
Television news writer, MXDWN.com
Contributing writer, NerdRepository.com
Patheos.com: San Diego Comic Con Coverage 2012-2013              

Mar 24 2015
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EntertainMEnt

Against the Exodus From Exodus: Gods and Kings

Yes, black leather in the desert is completely unbelievable.

Yes, black leather in the desert is completely unbelievable.

Am I the only person who liked Exodus: Gods and Kings? Having just caught up to the controversy of Ridley Scott’s big budget epic, on DVD, I’m befuddled that both mainstream and Christian audiences have orphaned this film. In his review for Forbes, Scott Mendelson, weighing in for the secular audience, commented, “Nearly all of Exodus is a routine by-the-numbers retelling of an oft-told tale with little to justify itself beyond improved special effects.” Going on, he criticized wooden acting and casting problems, the latter addressed by Scott prior to the film’s release.

I’m a Christian, so I want to speak to the Christian film viewer, and dare you to give Exodus a fair shot on home release. I’ve been scouring the web for a Christian critique that makes sense to me, and so far I’ve come up with just one, in Christianity Today. Oh there’s plenty of criticism; it’s awful, petty, churlish, and riddled with hermeneutics. By comparison, there is a dearth of critique of the film as a viewing experience.   Continue reading →

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Oct 15 2013
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Sky Captain and the World of Today

Get this – they’re making a blimp as long as two football fields. A BLIMP.
The thing would be huge, but it needs to be since it will carry up to 250 TONS of cargo.

Image courtesy Worldwide Aeros

It’s ridiculously amazing and though it’s way off in the future, with just the little version in testing right now, it’s still really incredible. Thank God that people are ingenious.

Here’s the scoop – It’s called Aeroscraft and the little version, the one currently in testing, is about 255 feet long. Nearly a football field. It carries about 50 tons of cargo. A car can weigh about one ton, or a hippo, or a whale. So put a bunch of those on board and off you go. Continue reading →

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Sep 08 2013
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Stuff, nonsense, & values

Sometimes It Doesn’t Get Better

Bullies don’t always grow up. And sometimes It Doesn’t Get Better. Bullies grow older and get jobs and continue to be dominated by their need to overpower those they think they can. It doesn’t get better. But we get better at dealing with it. That’s the goal.

I feel bad for them– the ones who mock and probe and deceive you into thinking they’re a friend, then throw a verbal machete at your head. Always in public. Bullies need an audience. Continue reading →

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Jul 25 2013
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Comic Con 2013, San Diego, CA!

I’ve been blogging Comic Con over on http://www.patheos.com.

If you love pop culture, sci fi, books and movies as much I as do – check these out!

Day One: Nerd HQ, Psych Panel, NASA JPL panel

Day Two: Helix, Ender’s Game, Falling Skies, The 100

Day 3/4: Warner Bros, Marvel, 20th Century Fox, Richard Madden, Loki

More to come so keep an eye out.

Jul 14 2013
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Stuff, nonsense, & values

2000 years after the garden

On nights like these all I can think of is a snake, a garden, a woman and an apple. A memory wiggles around somewhere in my soul – not my mind – that this isn’t how things were supposed to be.

The family of Trayvon Martin will never know what happened. They’ll always wonder if their child was someone other than they person they knew.
George Zimmerman will sleep the sleep of the self-righetous, the innocent, or the tormented. None of us need to know.  His life is his own to work out with his conscience and his God.

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Mar 30 2013
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Stuff, nonsense, & values

Simple, silent Saturday

Today is my favorite Christian holiday because it is, in essence, a day of waiting. It doesn’t have a weird and confusing name like Maundy Thursday, or the commercial clout of Easter and Christmas. It’s so much like the rest of life, just another day.

With so much possibility in it, and so much promise. Continue reading →

Dec 30 2012
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Guilt, grief and grace

I found an obituary today for a – nemesis? I don’t know what to call this person who devastated life for more than year, ending in employers and lawyers getting involved. And I won’t go into details, because they don’t matter, but I will say that this person’s behavior was bullying, plain and simple. Though in our 20s, it happened, and it still does today.

The shocker was that this person committed suicide. So as a Christian, how do I deal with this death? Continue reading →

Oct 30 2011
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The math of marriage

I have many friends who are single in their 40’s and in no way do I try and say their single life is easier than a married one. As part of a couple there is (theoretically) someone to send to the store for chicken soup and 7-Up when you’re sick, someone who may surprise you and put away the laundry, someone to cry with when the dog dies. Singles surrounded by married friends are on their own in many respects, no matter how close those friends may be. You know that in a choice between your crisis and a crisis in the life of your married friend’s spouse, you will always come in second place.
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