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The Future Of Work
While taking my son, Ben, for a haircut this afternoon the latest issue of Time jumped out at me as I sorted through the stack of magazines on the table in front of me... as I frantically looked for...
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A Re-Jesus Re-View
Re-Jesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church by Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch is the first of (I hope) many titles I will read and review for The Ooze Viral Bloggers.Frost and Hirsch pull material...
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Challenges/Joys of Starting & Leading a New Organization
Ever since Lemonade International hit the one year mark in late March I have been reflecting a lot on the challenges and joys that we have experienced in the past year. It has been incredibly...
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Thoughts on President Obama's Speech in Cairo
While speeches don’t solve problems they do help set the tone and create the environment by which difficult and complex issues can be worked on. And we live in a day where there are several complex...
View ArticleChris Marlow Interviews Tom Davis
Recently, my friend, Chris Marlow, director of H.E.L.P. (Help End Local Poverty), interviewed Tom Davis, author of the recently released novel, Scared. I had the opportunity to meet and get to know Tom...
View ArticleBummed For (And Impressed By) Tom Watson
Thanks to my Dad, I've been watching golf on TV since I was a little guy. Some of my earliest memories are of Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson battling it out for some of the big tournaments in the late...
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The Idea Camp DC - One Week Away
A week from today I will be in Washington, DC to attend The Idea Camp DC - A Collaborative Movement of Idea Makers.The Idea Camp is a FREE, open source hybrid conference designed to help people move...
View ArticleMiyah's New Thing
All of the sudden, about a week ago, Miyah just started climbing up the frame of the doorway into our living room... on her own. Cherie and I were talking to her while she was doing it this morning and...
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Thoughts on Becoming Human by Jean Vanier
Thanks to the encouragement from a few friends, I recently read Becoming Human by Jean Vanier. I had read a few books by Henri Nouwen, who was deeply influenced by Vanier, but hadn't read any of...
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The Idea Camp - In Review
I was in the DC area (Arlington, VA) Thursday night through Saturday of this past week for The Idea Camp DC – Justice Edition. From the workshop facilitators gathering at the home of a staff member of...
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Zumba Class (For You... Not Me)
Our good friend, and Guatemalan native, Maria Elena, teaches Zumba classes here in the Raleigh area... and I think you should consider joining her class on Saturdays at 1:00pm.She is an incredible...
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U2 in Raleigh!
I've been a huge U2 fan since the mid-80s when my friend, DJ, got me into them in our freshman year of high school. His older brother was in college at the time and was into the college music scene. DJ...
View ArticleMiyah On the Monkey Bars
Miyah wanted to show me how good she is on the monkey bars on the playground at her school today when I picked her up...
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Letting The Bible Live Again
I think I will resurrect this blog in the coming weeks, but in the meantime I had to share a quote from something I am reading.First, I will say that I have been reading the Bible regularly for the...
View Article"Jesus From Below"
Our friends at the Center For Transforming Mission do amazing work in Guatemala City, in La Limonada (in partnership with Lemonade International), throughout Central America as well as in Haiti and the...
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2010: Big Year For The Cummings Clan
A few months ago Cherie and I were talking about how Ben and Alex would be graduating high school and going to college in the next year. As we talked about that it hit us that 2010 would include some...
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Bono's Non-Top Ten... For The Next Ten
Bono has become a regular guest columnist for the NY Times Op-Ed section much to the chagrin of journalists like Sara Libby. In this column, Ten for the Next Ten, he presents a list of ten things we...
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Celebrating My Birthday ODW Style...
Hi, my name is Bill and I am 40.I feel like there needs to be a 12-Step Program for this. I am in the denial phase right now, so I just thought I would put my issues out there. Seriously... I am...
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Miyah in La Limonada
Miyah spent almost a week with Cherie and I in Guatemala last week. It was her first time out of the country since we brought her home from Nepal in May of 2006 - when she was 8 months old.She loved...
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Living Between Status Updates
The subtitle of this blog is " processing life, not from segmented parts, but as a whole". It really should read "trying to process life, not from segmented parts, but as a whole". This is a challenge...
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Record Crowd - Syracuse University Basketball
I have been following Syracuse University basketball since the days of "Louie & Bouie" (Louis Orr & Roosevelt Bouie) - in 1976 when the pair helped to put the team on the national map (along...
View ArticlePersonal Blogging Has Been On Hold
Even though I vowed to blog more regularly in 2010, quite the opposite has happened with my personal blog so far this year. So much is happening in our lives this year and I intended on documenting as...
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Interactive Art Show - Test Post
This is a test post featuring a photo taken by Leah Craver at the Lemonade International Interactive Art Show at Burning Coal Theater in Downtown Raleigh on Thursday, June 5.
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