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food for thought

September 26, 2011 wally metts4 Comments

We often encounter college students who seem completely lacking in domestic skills, anxious to learn the simplest things about managing a home. They know they can’t eat in the college cafeteria the rest of their life.

Posted in commentary, culture, food, UncategorizedTagged cooking, home economics, pop cans, student debt

read more, write more

September 23, 2011October 9, 2011 wally metts12 Comments

Facebook updates are not the key to your future or your success. What you need is more long form reading in an age of Twitter.

Posted in books, communication, culture, educationTagged aristotle, books, classics, facebook, genderlect, reading, Tannen, tozer, writing

the way the world (should) end

September 11, 2011September 11, 2011 wally metts2 Comments

A common table is a great equalizer. It says we sit at the same level and eat the same food, sharing the same need and enjoying the same grace. And Christian hospitality requires us to do that with people less like ourselves.

Posted in commentary, culture, faithTagged Abraham, Bible, hospitality, instruction, stangers

the end of summer

September 4, 2011 wally metts2 Comments

As a kid I might have wished I had found the perfect shark eye (moon snail) along the beach, or had finished a conversation with a girl I met on the pier without sounding like an idiot. And nothing has changed but my list.

Posted in commentary, culture, educationTagged doldrums, Ft. Myers, Labor Day, lists, summer, vacation

the perfect t-shirt

August 31, 2011August 31, 2011 wally metts22 Comments

I was glad we didn't get t-shirts at the staff retreat this year. The perfect t-shirt, after all, is the one you don't have to wear.

Posted in books, celebration, culture, humorTagged color-coded, community, microstyle, serendipity, t-shirts, teams

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