Our family went to UCF’s basketball game this week, where UCF easily beat Tulane–a decent team that beat Auburn, Georgia, and LSU, not that those 3 are any good.  Still, I thought it would be a close game.
Anyway, halfway through the playing of the national anthem, Evan had a question:
“Daddy, whose fight song is THIS?”

Not too many football coaches quote Irish poets, but I’ve recently come across 2 quotes by former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr while reading leadership articles.   He seems like an interesting man, though I never followed him much as a coach, and rarely if ever root for the Wolverines.  Both the articles and the quotes show that he spent his time reading […]

Evan, just before Christmas (and his 5th birthday):
“Daddy, do you want to watch some TV?  It’s like a book……..that talks.”

Or should I say the year that wasn’t…recorded on this blog.  The one-year anniversary of my last post seems like as good a time as any to add to the random postings on this site.
So what has happened in the last year?  Let’s see…seems like it was a year on the go.  In March it was international missions–all […]

There are 109,000 people in the US with the name Brad; 204,000 Crawfords; and 74 Brad Crawfords.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
74
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

After you’ve gone 4 months without posting on a blog, how do you get started back?  4 months…went by like 4 weeks.  School started, and then….wow.  So now I face the question of what to write in my first post back, knowing that I should do it now…especially since a link to it has been […]

As if hurricanes weren’t enough.

 

The latest from my favorite hurricane watching site.  Never thought I’d have a favorite hurricane watching site.

 
 

Classes kicked off Monday at UCF, and to celebrate the occasion a major campus traffic artery was roadblocked so that it could be re-routed sometime this decade. Apparently someone decided a week or two ago that this (and not May, June, or July) would be a good time to start a large and disruptive campus […]

Mike is a friend, former student, and local law officer. He was hit and critically injured yesterday on the job. You can read about it here.
Mike is one of the friendliest and most helpful people I know. He fixed my car! He helped me put down tile in our master bath a few years ago, […]

Evan (age 3) at the breakfast table:  “Andrew, are you thinking what I’m thinking?  Are you thinking what I’m thinking ’cause I’m thinking ’bout Winnie the Pooh and Tigger and we were all on this ride together and it was really fun.”
Andrew (10):  “Uhhhhh, no, I wasn’t thinking that.”
Evan:  “Why not?”
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After 2 trips to Istanbul in the past year, I […]

No, I’m not going to make a New Year’s Resolution to do better, because I know I won’t. I just don’t like to write nearly as much as I like to read. And I have other ways to keep track of the theology articles and stuff I read, so I’ll probably continue to post mostly […]

Quote from a news story:
Amid the tragedy [of hurricane Katrina and its aftermath], about two dozen people gathered in the French Quarter for the Decadence Parade, an annual Labor Day gay celebration. Matt Menold, 23, a street musician wearing a sombrero and a guitar slung over his back, said: “It’s New Orleans, man. We’re going to celebrate.”
Full […]

Hurricane Charley hit. We had gotten back from Ridgecrest on Tuesday, and paid very little attention to the storm until Friday (the 13th) about lunch, when word began to spread that Charley had taken a sharp turn and was headed straight for Orlando. What a night. Lost power. All of us sitting in the hall […]

The shuttle took off last week. We watched it from our front yard, but clouds made it harder than usual to see. The rumbling thunder is still impressive.
Tonight there was a report on the crew. One guy is going out tomorrow to fix something on the shuttle WITH SCISSORS AND DUCT TAPE!!! That’s what they […]

An article from Relevant about pop worship
Georgia coach Mark Richt on Character Education
Only 3 teams have won more games than Georgia in the last 4 years.
As I write, Keith Olberman is interviewing a guy from Canada who fesses up: he’s the dude dressed up in the suit and causing all the Bigfoot sightings. And geneticists […]

Seems like every time I read something by or about Bono, like this old article, I end up scratching my head and wondering, “What’s going on with this guy?” He’s an interesting study in contradictions. No question, much of what he does is good and moral.

  
So now I have a blog. Because I stumbled onto this really good site, http://sbcoutpost.blogspot.com/ and the link said “get your own blog”. So I did. And really the best thing about it so far (so far? I’ve only had it for about 5 minutes) is that it just makes me feel a little cooler […]