this is how i’m doing: in case you were wondering…

Notice anything different about my blogroll?  Notice those names ABOVE the normal blogroll?  This is me rewarding bloggers who blog regularly.  Thank you for blogging

Thanks to this little guy.  I bought it about a year ago but only really started using it after the french press broke.  Lattes and Americanos on demand — I love it.

So,  I’ve been thinking about this again…

I learned in elementary school that the first thing you need to solve a problem is a problem. Hope works in the same way. Hope paints a picture of a future day where things will be better than they are today. In painting that picture, hope is a confession that our current situation is not OK. Hope says things won’t always be this way, that I won’t always be this way. Faith is believing that it’s true.

I just finished talking to my buddy Lee on facebook who happens to be stationed in Vicenza! I’m having him take lots of pictures for me.

Sometimes I wonder what my life would be like if I had kept the scholarship…