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Looks different, doesn’t it?
I jumped on the bandwagon. I decided to transfer my website/portfolio to WordPress. I know, I know, I’m such a sell-out. Ha! But my old website was looking a bit too childish for me. I toned down the colors and used a theme. So. Enjoy.
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The benefits of eating well (for you now, not just 40-year-old you)
Fort Wayne, Ind., my hometown, located just an hour north of here, was ranked the second among the Most Artery-Clogged Cities in America, according to Yahoo! Health. Indiana’s obesity rate has risen in the past year, making it the 15th highest in the country, according to theindychannel.net. Lucky us. I know this whole eating-well thing ...
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Smith: ‘If we build it, they will come’
An update on President Smith’s university goals In the upcoming years, the Health Sciences Initiative is a key goal for Indiana Wesleyan University’s President Henry Smith and his cabinet. The initiative has two parts: a new science and nursing building, due to be completed by fall 2014, and a college of osteopathic medicine. Smith emphasized ...
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An excerpt from ‘Snapshots of Iraq’
Introductions We cross the street—all ten of us do—but I keep staring at the big, green street sign over the road, just like the ones over interstates in America. I didn’t know they had those here. It’s Iraq, and as far as I know, as far as my family at home knows, I’m living in ...
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So He Did It Himself
I wasn’t impressed by the Incarnation until I saw my sin for what it was. I became a Christian in middle school, but even before then I was always doing godly things like cleaning up my toys and taking out the trash without griping. Becoming a Christian didn’t affect my behavior much. My mom, a ...
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‘Hot’ Toys of 2011 according to ToysRUs.com
Between the ages of 5 and 7, all I wanted for Christmas were life-size Barbies, Giga Pets, Yikes! pencils, Silly Putty, Garfield comic books and a Gameboy. I still look back at those gifts with glee and nostalgia. What cool toys. Kids nowadays don’t know what they’re missing. I have two nieces and three nephews ...
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Honors students create, star in trilogy plays
Since the tradition began more than 10 years ago, students in the John Wesley Honors College “World Literature” classes have written, directed and starred in original 30-minute plays in the Black Box Theatre. This semester’s productions — three, which make up a trilogy — took place Wednesday evening, Nov. 30. This year, for the first ...
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IWU announces Kansas as possible med. school site
President Henry Smith of Indiana Wesleyan University announced Nov. 16 that the school hopes to open a college of osteopathic medicine in Kansas as early as fall 2015. Smith had announced at an IWU “town hall” meeting on Sept. 30 that the school was looking outside the state of Indiana for possible locations to build ...
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Advice
“You know you deserve someone who loves you,” — Buddy knocked a cigarette out of its pack and lit it in two clicks — “someone who loves you back.” He settled into the booth, taking slow, long drags of the cigarette. I hear but cannot force myself to take his advice. It’s not what I ...
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Learning to sing with the Fundamentalists
Annie Dillard wrote a beautiful essay called “Singing with the Fundamentalists,” a piece about how she coexisted with the supposed “Christian crazies” at the college where she taught. Every morning the Fundamentalists stood around the fountain in the middle of campus, singing worship songs. While all the other professors ignored the students or complained about ...