Life is a fusion of interests and energies, a crossroads of many different pathways of thought. This is an attempt at living into that messiness.
Challah, a traditional Jewish egg-bread, is one of my favorite easy breads to make. It is great for using in home-made stuffing/dressing and makes AWESOME French toast.
I first started baking challah about 6 years ago, when I didn’t know where to find it in Richmond. (It was actually some of the first home-baked bread I ever attempted!) Since then I’ve been slowly perfecting my technique.
I’ve had several requests for my base recipe, so here goes:
As many of you may know, I just returned from a week-long vacation through south-central and south-eastern Missouri. Rather than give a play-by-play of the trip, I’m choosing to tell the story in the form of web links to the many places that were a part of our trip. You can also see some pictures through my wife Becky’s facebook page and on her flickr album for the trip.
It’s come to my attention that I often give folks the impression that I’m good at everything, that I excel at any undertaking I embark upon. Let me assure you here and now that this is truly not the case. Not only that, but I’m feeling a bit confessional at the moment, so I would like to share with you (and the world) some things I’m not good at and consistently find difficult no matter how hard I try. Keep Reading »
From time to time I also post on Already and Not Yet, a blog written by several young adult leaders from the Church of the Brethren tradition. This is cross-posted from that site, so I’ve closed comments on this post. Please post any comments on that site instead. Thanks!
How do we as young adults and church leaders engage with social media sites? While this might seem like an innocent enough question at first, with seemingly easy answers (I use site x not site y, etc.) in actuality it’s much more complex.
I was recently at a local blogging workshop where they were discussing institutional involvement in social media (aka social networking). The presenter was speaking out of his experience working with colleges and universities that are trying to be more active in connecting with prospectives, students, and alumni using current and emerging social media sites. One example that he gave was how the chancellor of our regional campus of Indiana University (IU East) is using Twitter to make a personal connection with people, in addition to several other IU East-related Twitter feeds.
Immediately I started thinking of how different this is from how I use social media on a regular basis. Keep Reading »
A couple weeks ago I ran across this excellent recipe on Wit & Whistle for homemade granola bars. Of course, being the culinary tinkerer that I am, I couldn’t simply leave well enough alone and adapted it to my tastes (CHOCOLATE!) and what I had on hand. While I was at it I also made some handy conversions from volumetric to weight measurements for geeky folks like me who like to use kitchen scales. The result: easy-to-make relatively healthy absolute deliciousness!
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