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I have three posts lined up to write and I can’t write any of them. It has been such a long and such a confusing day that there’s no room for anything else. Yesterday I wrote about crying with others, and today I was given the opportunity to practice what I preach.

Brad Abare, over at Church Marketing Sucks (dot com), has been moving through a series of posts on an impending, national identity crisis and how it's "funking our souls." He's been writing about how and why Americans are losing a sense of identity, where it used to come from, and why it doesn't anymore.

Margaret Feinberg wrote an article recently for Rick Warren's Ministry Toolbox called "Five best practices of reaching the next generation." While it's not immediately architecture-related, we're students of culture, so the title grabbed my attention. Here, briefly, are the five:Look for opportunities to engage in culture.

Tibor the Hun writes “According to Gartner and IDC, Apple now has between 7.8 and 8.5% of market share. While those numbers are not astonishing, they are not insignificant, and their growth does not seem to be slowing down.

I have read a couple of books on the history of Starbucks.  I have been fascinated  by their story and by their ability to create “a third place” .  Are you familiar with that term?  The third place is where you go and hang out for community besides your home and your work place.  They have done an

I'm probably a little late on the uptake here but I just discovered Ray Oldenburg's 1999 book The Great Good Place: Cafes, Coffee Shops, Bookstores, Bars, Hair Salons and Other Hangouts at the Heart of a Community. Oldenburg talks about the three places in a community: the first place is home, the second place is work, and the "third place" is the community hangout(s).

Today was the grand opening of a new mountain biking and trail running park near my town. As part of the celebration, there was a 5K trail run. C and I and an ultra-marathoner friend of ours decided to go and run the 5K just to get out on a Saturday morning and also to check out some new trails.

Flying home from Boston yesterday I was reading Love Over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith. Having just typed that, the book sounds so “paperback romance”! It’s not…Alexander McCall Smith has written lots of great contemporary Scotland-based fiction.

As part of celebrating our 5th anniversary, someone who is part of Everyday Joe’s will write something about it each month. Anything from essays to sonnets to interpretive dance. How interpretive dance would translate to this blog, I’m not sure…but it’d be interesting.

He won the $1500 razz event and followed that up with a runner-up finish in the $2500 pot-limit Omaha event (TJ Cloutier was the winner), and a third-place finish in the…… Poker GT . NET- Poker Blog and Poker News . Read the rest of the post here: WSOP History — 1998 Recap