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Posted 2018-10-27T23:52:52Z

Shotgun Approach

I've had the blessing of several really talented physios over the past five years, and one of the gifts of working with Anja for over four years of that time is that she learned how to target specific weaknesses and help me to improve them. Now that I've got a new physio, Mike is having to figure out some of the capabilities and see how muscles work so that he can offer suggestions and work with me based on his expertise. We talked through what I've been doing with Anja, but she's got the "sniper" ability to zero in on stuff because of the long time we've spent working together. Occasionally, she'd try something completely new to see if there was improvement, and we'd discover some new development to target, but it's incredibly focused work. [...]

Posted 2018-10-21T02:07:29Z

Nothing Much

People keep asking me what I've done through the week, and my response is always an embarrassed, "nothing much," but, honestly, I'm in the rest phase of my sabbatical, and I'm sleeping in as often as possible, going to bed early, and not feeling guilty about catching up on my reading list.[...]

Posted 2018-10-07T03:12:08Z

The Secret Life of Books

When I made the decision to move to Germany, I sold nearly all of my 250+ books in my personal library. This past week, I discovered one of them made its way all the way to Texas. A local pastor with a habit of buying copies of Fee and Stuart's text to give to students interested in reading the Bible purchased a copy on Amazon and noticed my name in the front of the text. He messaged me on Wednesday to ask if it was mine, curious about the insightful marginalia. (Full disclosure, my friend Margaux was the one who wrote smart comments before I inherited the text from her library downsizing.) The guy even offered to mail it back to me for free - before I told him I lived overseas.[...]