Among the things I find utterly confounding about soccer is “stoppage time” (a.k.a. “time added on”).
Author Archives: John Schroeder
Today’s find: Stoppage time
Today’s find: Vertigo
A friend told me about his recent bout with vertigo, and I came away from the conversation amazed. Continue reading
Today’s find: Ace
‘Ace’ rhymes with ‘grace’…or so I was reminded earlier this week, when my ‘baby brother’ Phil carded a hole-in-one at Franklin County Country Club.
I’m pleased as punch for him. I’m also jealous as hell.
Today’s find: Busyness
The long holiday weekend proved fruitful, for everything except blogging.
Today’s find: Reboot
There was a time when I found it pretty amazing – my Cisco LINKSYS Wireless-G 2.4Ghz broadband router. Yesterday, on the eve of Pentecost, it officially met the scrap heap.
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Today’s find: Innermost Cell
Eight armored doors. That’s what stood between our incarcerated brothers and freedom…when we presented a Kairos Weekend to them at a supermax prison in 2012. Those eight doors, plus an ever-jangling assortment of handcuffs and leg-irons.
Today’s find: All Tied Up
Here’s a lesson from my first-ever attempt at knotting a bow-tie:
It helps a LOT…
if you start with enough CRAVAT.
Today’s find: Community
The first thing I noticed, as our Kairos Weekend began inside the prison last week, were the guys who didn’t show. Continue reading
Today’s find: Hunger
Sure: I’ve seen the ‘multiplication’ miracle happen on more than one occasion, but it never gets old.
Today’s find: O, Mercy!
The calendar says ‘spring,’ but you couldn’t prove it by the hue of the fairways as we opened the golf season this past week. The zoysia turf, still sporting a winter tint, made our league’s ‘home course’ resemble the Sahara more closely than Augusta during our first week of play.


