In 1988 when we first came to California we often prayed for favor. Back then almost no one here could even pronounce the words Chi Alpha, let alone understand what we did on campus. All that has changed today. We are getting more speaking engagements, emails, phone calls than we can manage. Some days is [...]

Miss artistic, stop motion animation, hippy, dog lover girl - Maddy Harlow, can now add another moniker to her creative list of descriptive words. Speech Making Super Star. Keeping it a complete surprise to her or so duped parents, Maddy gave a class speech at her 6th grade promotion ceremony last night.
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Santa Barbra is where the Garden of Eden must have been. If you have not been, I highly suggest you go. I spent three days in April working with our Chi Alpha leaders at UCSB and the entire time I was there I kept asking God, “Tell me again why you don’t want West Coast [...]

Friend-heimer’s: 1. Having no memory of someone you have just friended on facebook. 2. Looking back over you friend list and having no idea who half the people are.
Speed Tw-editoring: The task of taking your 1247 character tweet down to 140 in less than a minute.
Tweeb-briations: Inventing new abbreviation (usually ones that no one else [...]

Hurdle Two: Workable Funding Models:
“If you build it they will come,” is a cute  slogan for mystical baseball movies but the thinking behind this quote has tripped up many a planter. Most business models assume a four to five year window just to get their books in the black. Many planters on the other [...]