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Nothing Man – How to Self-Identify Yourself
What do you do? This question terrifies me. What do you do? How am I supposed to answer that? I’m assuming you’d like to know where I work or what I do at my job. How would you like me to answer that? I could tell you that I have a “day job” working IT…
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The Best Times of Your Life
In the last episode of The Office, Andy Bernard says, “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good ole’ days before you’ve actually left them.” Have you ever wondered if the best times of your life are behind you? How do you know when you’re in the best times of your…
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2013 in Review
A Time for Everything There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time…
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The History of Fair Haven Christian Church
In June of 1953, Fair Haven Christian Church had its first church service. It was held in Charlie Brackman’s living room. There were 64 people there so the kids had to sit on the stairs. Five families attended, including the Allen’s, the Coy’s, the Brackman’s, the Hook’s, and the Burgett’s. Orville Coy donated the land for…
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A Tale of Two Cities: From Milligan College to Muncie, Indiana
I’ve recently wrote about my first two years at Kentucky Christian College and my one semester at Milligan College so I thought it would be appropriate to share how I spent the year 2001, the year everything changed. Life at Milligan was better than at KCC, but it wasn’t as different as living in Muncie,…
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Kentucky Christian College
Attending Kentucky Christian College is one of my deepest regrets. I wish I could go back in time and convince myself that it would not be fun, that I would not learn what I needed to know, and that I would not find my wife there, but I did go. I went there straight out…
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Thirty-Six Cents: The Rise and Fall of Shog
Shog was a band started in high school with a couple of friends from the swim team. The year was 1996 and I almost had my driver’s license for the first time. The only person with any band equipment was the guitar player, Josh, who had a red Fender Telecaster and a small Fender amp.…
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Urban Exploration – My Life Under Bridge
Recently I’ve been exploring the development of an “outdoor adventure” brand and in my market research I ran across this Wikipedia article on urban exploration: Urban exploration (often shortened as urbex or UE) is the exploration of man-made structures, usually abandoned ruins or not usually seen components of the man-made environment. Photography and historical interest/documentation…
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The Screen – Milligan Movies
This is a story about how I ended up leaving Kentucky Christian College and helping Milligan College produce it’s first feature-length film called The Screen. I was working at Camp Allendale the summer between Kentucky Christian College and Milligan. My friend, Ben, asked me if I wanted to go on a vacation with him to…