Erick’s Blog

Budapest

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:19:41 -0700

We arrived here yesterday--Wednesday afternoon--and it's great having a place of our own that we can immediately settle down in. I saw "Fool's Gold" and "The Bucket List" on the plane. The former had some very nice beach and yacht scenes and a p...

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Nike Run

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:01:37 -0700

This past Sunday Ivy and I joined my sister and her husband Mark at the Nike campus for a 5k run to support our friend Bridget and cancer research. Mark made cool t-shirts which all twenty of us on the "I Love You Bridget" team sported. It was a ...

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Stacey's Wedding & North Carolina

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:39:07 -0700

Last weekend we had a fantastic time at Stacey E's wedding. He's a good friend from high school youth group and we also lived together our first year at UCLA. He married the lovely and very kind Kristin who grew up in North Carolina but met Stac...

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Two pictures

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:31:47 -0700

I saw two inspiring pictures today. The first was in an Outdoor magazine that featured a young guy in his late twenties who is both a world-class athlete and a photographer who takes pictures while he travels all over the world. He also was born...

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Children of Jihad

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:14:48 -0700

Ivy and I are doing some babysitting for my sister and husband tonight. I'm still struck by how convenient it is that I can check email from their computer and also do some blog updates too. I want to recommend a great book that Ivy and I both f...

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Wright Brothers

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:56:40 -0700

Last week Ivy and I had to study up to take the written driving test to get our drivers licenses for Oregon. So we went to the DMV early Thursday morning. Ivy only missed one question while I missed four! (thankfully I passed as well...). It's ...

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Saturday

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:49:34 -0700

We explored the very big and beautiful Washington Park on Saturday. This park is right next to some great walking streets in northwest Portland. Washington Park has a very peaceful and colorful rose garden, an arboretum with a bunch of exotic tr...

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Tasty food

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 22:03:09 -0700

Since I can record whatever I want here, I want to say that my wife has made some amazing dinners for us this past week. Two of them came from a Rachel Ray cookbook we picked up a couple weeks ago at Powell's bookstore in Portland. After eating ...

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The Diving Bell & the Butterfly

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 21:55:27 -0700

We borrowed this movie from my sister and brother in law yesterday and were very moved by it. In fact, it is officially one of my favorite movies of all time. "The Diving Bell & the Butterfly" is a true story about a hot-shot French editor of th...

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Great Weekends

nobody@vox.com(Erick) — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:12:18 -0700

Two weekends ago, my parents and younger brother came up to visit for a long weekend. We played some tennis and my Dad helped me seriously improve my handyman skills as we got some Ikea curtains up and some car maintenance taken care of. My sist...

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