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Edit 5:12 p.m. EST: I have been asked to remove this post. And, I will honor this request.
EDIT 5:22 p.m. EST 11/18/2010: I am not going to repost the original text that was here. But increasingly, I am being led to post something about what I have gone through. Maybe – just maybe – God might use it to spare others the grief that I have gone through and that I have put too many other people through.In my last post (which really was meant to be farewell for now) I publicly disclosed that I have suffered from depression for many years. I also have had to struggle with bipolar. And I do understand that I am likely giving up a lot of great potential in coming forward with that.Well, whether I want it or not, it is a part of me. It is part of my identity, which ...

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Right now TNT is running Titanic. I was just telling Lisa how I saw that movie on the day after it came out, and how these teenage girls were leaving the theater in tears before the show we were going into started. I told the ladies in line with me then “Wow, must be pretty powerful.” And then those ladies were in tears as we were leaving the theater.

Me? I cried once during Titanic. It was during the first time we see the ship going full-speed underway, and something about those engine rooms, how incredibly accurate they were to the real Titanic‘s power plant, watching those steam turbines in all their grimy, beautiful detail…

…I cried at that. I didn’t cry at the romance.

“You’re heartless!” Lisa said.

“No,” I replied. “I’m just a historian.”

This is gonna be some household when the kids come along, ...

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It’s now almost 2 weeks since Christmas, and Lisa is happily playing her new Nintendo Wii.

Yes folks, we have a Wii. And my sister does too!

How did it happen? The Thursday night before Christmas, I went to a GameStop store in Greensboro, where they were due to begin selling vouchers the next day for the Wii (which might have been the hottest item of Christmas 2007). The plan was that you buy the voucher, and your Wii comes in on January 25th. I figured hey, if it’s 4 weeks after Christmas that’s still okay.

So I got to the store, and lo and behold the nice associates told me that they had some Wiis in stock, that they were going to start selling the next morning.

“I’m not going anywhere,” I told them. “I’m gonna be camping outside all night until you guys open tomorrow morning, if that’s ...

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Yesterday was the premiere of Transformers in the IMAX format. The allure of watching the Autobots and Decepticons hash it out on what I call “the big-a$$ screen” was too much to pass up, so on Tuesday Lisa and I ordered our tickets for last night’s 7 p.m. show at the IMAX Theater at Exploris in downtown Raleigh.

But this really is the kind of thing best shared with friends too. So Chad Austin also got him a ticket and we got in touch with Eric Wilson, a really good friend of ours who I hadn’t seen in like 15 years. He drove a few hours to Raleigh and we all hooked up at Chad’s place about 5 minutes from the Exploris. After a quick bite at the Armadillo Grill, we headed over to the theater.

The best part of going to see Transformers last night, without a ...

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It all started a little over a month ago, and the very strange tale of how we wound up with a life-sized statue of Yoda in our home. Bear in mind that Brian Hodges wanted it to go in his new office at Mercer University and since he’s teaching cello, he was going to replace Yoda’s lightsaber blade with a cello bow. But he didn’t have enough room and so Yoda came back to North Carolina from Atlanta (after already coming up from Florida) and ended up in our “foster care”.

The thing is that even at life-size, Yoda takes up considerable space. Lisa and I didn’t really know what to do with him. But then an idea came to us. Or to be more accurate, the notion came to mind to “adapt” Brian’s original idea…

Let’s put Yoda in Lisa’s music classroom at school! That way Yoda would have ...

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We celebrate many birthdays. But to the best of my knowledge there are only two people that the western world takes time out to commemorate the deaths of: Jesus Christ, and Elvis Presley. Curious, that…

So today is the 30th anniversary of the death of Elvis. Which a lot of folks no doubt are going to be remembering in various ways. Here’s mine: the story of how Lisa and I wound up devoting a considerable chunk of our honeymoon five years ago to the King of Rock and Roll.

I suppose all of this came about because of what you see in the picture on your right. This was taken at the rehearsal dinner on the night before our wedding at this restaurant in Calhoun, Georgia. As dinner was winding down Lisa’s dad thanked everyone for coming from such far away (we had guests in from Brooklyn, Australia and Belgium!) ...

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That’s one odd way of celebrating a fifth anniversary …

Lisa and I went to Carrabba’s on High Point Road in Greensboro for dinner at about 8, and then after that we went on to Borders further down the road. I got to purchase Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows about 35 minutes after the book went on sale.

We just got home. The first thing I did was make an annoying crank call to certain friends in Bellingham, Washington to let them know that us folks on the East Coast have already got the book, and they still have to wait more than an hour at least!

Full report of what happened tonight (well at Border’s anyway) on this blog sometime during the weekend....

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Lisa and I were married.

Seems like just yesterday. Can’t believe all of the things that have happened in those five years.

Where does all that time go?

What does God have in store for us the next five years?

I don’t know … but it’s a great feeling knowing I’ve got the best girl in the world to share this life’s journey with.

Happy anniversary honey 🙂...

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In the lead-up to the release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows this Friday at midnight, Lisa and I started last night watching all of the Harry Potter movies, beginning with Harry Potter and the Sorceror’s Stone. Tonight we spent over two hours watching Chamber of Secrets. And now, only now, is Lisa appreciating something really cool that I did for her five years ago!!

It was about two months before the wedding. She was doing her final exams and I was at Star Wars Celebration II in Indianapolis. I wanted to get her something really special from the trip and also something of a gift for her getting her master’s degree.

Well, Lisa and I sort of discovered the Harry Potter books at about the same time and Sorceror’s Stone was the last movie we saw in theaters before we got engaged. And one of ...

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