Spanglish Gringo
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007


From last weeks fellowship meeting, aka DEEP

You can read about the most recent update about the ministry - with news about how our student group is deepening, about our upcoming conference at Catalina, and the Cumbre event on Nov.16, as well as an update about Isabel - by clicking here.If you’d like to get the update automatically, sign up here to subscribe.

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Friday foto fix

Friday, October 19th, 2007


Yes, that’s Isabel hiding behind the pompom during her home vision therapy

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tiredness is…

Friday, October 19th, 2007

putting the ice cream in the refrigerator, not the freezer - which we realized this morning.  Isabel has had a bad stretch in the night time sleep realm. She is doing her best Paris Hilton or Lindsey Lohan late-night partying impression and has been waking up multiple times in the night. It seems like it is mostly teething related.  Hopefully she gets back on track before she winds up in the tabloids…

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just another day

Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

If a note-taking bug were on the wall, here is what they would see today

- At almost 2, Isa is a late-night party girl.  Today she got me up at 1:40am and danced in my arms (and then Vero’s) until 4am.

- Slept until 7:30, cleaned up the house before waking up Isa at 8:30 in order to eat, and put on her hand splints/’hip-hop’ gloves (you’ve got to see them to understand) before her vision therapy at 9am

- Worked on my presentation on “The Gang Crisis” for my Race & Identity in the New Testament class this afternoon, while Isa practiced tracking the red pom-pom and activating the light & music on her drum.

- Drove up to La Canada to have lunch with an old high school/church friend who is currently living in Sweden.

- Raced over to Fuller, somehow found good parking, but was late to class because I needed to make handouts for the presentation.

- Will make my weekly run from class in Pasadena (at 6pm) to make it to CSULA in time for our fellowship meal at 6:30pm.

- I’m excited to hear my friend Chris - church planting here in the eastside - speak at DEEP to our students from Luke 5:27-32 on Jesus as the good doctor.  We spent some time this morning talking through the specifics of our group, and Chris is a great speaker, so I’m really excited for our students tonight.

- After DEEP (our on-camps fellowship meeting), I’m taking 3 of our core guys to In-N-Out to talk about “fella”ship and hospitality in our ministry.  I’ll probably get home before midnight and am praying that Isa isn’t planning another late-night party.

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Friday Foto Fix

Friday, October 12th, 2007


Isa isn’t always laughing, but when she is, gosh, she is beautiful

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Not ashamed to say I’ve been praying for this

Tuesday, October 9th, 2007

ESPN.com reports that the Arizona Cardinals signed QB Tim Rattay.  Yes!!!

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Friday Foto Fix

Friday, October 5th, 2007


Isabel, sporting her new hip-hop glove look.
(The gloves/splints are to help open her hands up from being clenched.)

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Ministry Update - NSO

Thursday, October 4th, 2007


Our returning students gathered to help new students move-in.

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WSJ: “Special Education: When should Taxes pay for Private Tuition?”

Monday, October 1st, 2007

Needless to say, I’m highly invested in how this kind of issue goes. Whether Tom Freston, former Viacom exec, is a saint or not, I appreciate his stated motivation, as the article quotes it:

“In a statement, he said he contributed reimbursements he received from the city — and will donate future ones — to a special-education support center in a public school. He says he is pursuing the case so other children, “without jumping through hoops,” can attend appropriate schools “regardless of their family’s financial means.“

My snooty answer to the question - especially when asked in light of schools that already fail typically developing students, before we even begin to talk about special needs students - is whenever public schools fail to provide what they’re supposed to with the tax-payer funds they’ve been alloted, then other means should be funded. It’s why I’ve begun to swing towards a pro-choice stance on the models that vouchers and charter schools provide.

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Friday Foto Fix (video edition)

Friday, September 28th, 2007

No photos this week because the camera was hidden in Isa’s bag until today. But we captured this video while we were in the waiting room at the neurologists office.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzXK3mJkEhw

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Jumping ahead a little

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

As we were still in bed waking up this morning, listening over the monitor to Isa coo and yawn in her crib, Vero rolls over and says,

“We should spend a half hour today planning Isa’s wedding.”

I think she meant birthday, which is coming up soon in November.

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Foto Fix (weekend edition)

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

It’s been a slow week for fotos. But since beauty never sleeps (sometimes literally) here are a few photos of the princess.


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Friday Foto Fix (early edition)

Friday, September 7th, 2007

Since sleeping beauty just went back to sleep a few minutes ago, I figured I’d take advantage of my awakeness to satisfy her early-morning fan base (Yeah, that means you, grampa!)


No this is not a live shot of her sleeping. But my oh my, she is cute.

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Friday Foto Fix

Friday, August 24th, 2007


Yeah, it’s Friday. I’m just chillin’. Relax with me.
(NOTE: Foto not actually taken on Friday. Chillin’ and relaxing are real.)

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Call me an international bible teacher

Friday, August 24th, 2007

I’ve been wanting to say that every since I got back from Turkey, since I got a chance to teach about this section from the book of Job while I was there.  I’m anticipating that with the acclaim, maybe I’ll get a mega-church and a TV gig now.

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Bumps in her smooth

Wednesday, August 15th, 2007

Some family legacies get passed down from generation to generation. Much to her grampy’s chagrin, Isa has started to eat “bumps” in her “smooth.” For those outside of the clan, this phrase refers to a certain culinary aversion by some in our family towards things like nuts in ice cream or granola in yogurt, ie. no “bumps” in the “smooth.”

For Isa, her rebellious rejection of this family phrase has meant that over the last week or so, (more…)

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More on the brain

Monday, August 13th, 2007

For all of the hits that I’ve gotten on this story from people looking for a good CT scan of the brain, I thought this article - Blossoming Brains - was an interesting read.

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Hers will have her name on it.

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007


We ordered this wheelchair for Isa on Monday. Or something like this one. It is supposed to be good for 5 years or so. And it better, considering it costs over $6,000 to get one of these for Isabel. Hers chair will have (more…)

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What keeps me up at night (part I)

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Several weeks ago, at a coalition meeting of urban youth workers in East LA, we were asked to share about ourselves by answering the question - “What keeps you up at night?”

Too be totally honest, my instinctive response was (more…)

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Friday Foto Fix

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

For all of the summertime junkies… here is your fix.


Sleeping Beauty just before she woke up on Wednesday

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