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Thin Places: 44,000 Object Files
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44,000 Object Files. My street. The house I'm staying in is just to the left. I have now completed my second week at the Museum of the Bible. It’s already been an interesting experience, very different from my past museum work. The museum collection is housed at Hobby Lobby’s corporate headquarters. Yesterday I got to take a tour of the Hobby Lobby campus, which includes some six million square feet of warehouse, manufacturing and office space. What happens to the cake? Therefore, due to my experience wi...
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Thin Places: November 2014
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Life in a Chicken Coop. I have now been in Arizona for four weeks, and I feel that I am finally settling in a bit. I've driven around Flagstaff, learned the lay of land (to some degree, anyway) and visited some sites around the city. And I am living in chicken coops. Me and my chicken coop. Take it from me, this is much. Nicer than it sounds. First of all, think of the structure part of a chicken coop, not the chicken-wire part. Large portion of the collection is in a fairly new, state-of-the-art collect...
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Thin Places: The Museum of the Bible
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The Museum of the Bible. It's hard to believe that two years ago I moved to Waco, began another degree and embarked on a career in museums. It is perhaps even more astounding that I am now a Master of Museum Studies. I don't think I ever thought that I would be old enough to hold a graduate degree. And yet here I am, with another diploma in hand and a quarter of my life behind me. Sign me up," I said. And with that, I decided to return to school. It is incredibly satisfying to feel that I am in the right...
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Thin Places: August 2012
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Now this is a great way to spend a summer evening - enjoying some good baseball. Several weeks ago the family headed to Arlington for a baseball game with several hundred other ACU alums (and about 34,000 other fans). Summer is the Olympic Games. I absolutely love the Olympics. I never can quite decide whether I like the summer or the winter games better, as usually I prefer whichever is going on at the time. 1992 Barcelona Olympic Stadium - the only Olympic venue I've visited. I am a recent graduate of ...
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Thin Places: August 2013
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We Are the Shoes, We Are the Last Witnesses. We Are the Shoes. We are the shoes, we are the last witnesses. We are the shoes from grandchildren and grandfathers. From Prague, Paris, Amsterdam,. And because we are only made of fabric and leather. And not of blood and flesh, each one of us avoided the hellfire.". Yiddish poet Moses Schulstein. One morning this summer we headed to the museum a couple of hours before it opened to the public in order to clean this exhibit. The shoe exhibit. Majdanek, the firs...
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Thin Places: Adventures in Making Mozzarella
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Adventures in Making Mozzarella. There are two food groups in the world: The one you put cheese on and the one you put chocolate on." Anonymous. A Love of Cheese. I think we'll all be happier if we just pretend that cheese is a non-fattening food that counts as one of our daily vegetable servings. It should come as no surprise that the concept of making cheese at home sounds fantastic to me! One of my Christmas gifts this year was a mozzarella and ricotta cheesemaking kit. My parents know me so well.
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Thin Places: 2014
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2014 was an interesting year. A good year. The close of one year and the opening of another is often bittersweet, but now that we're almost one full month into 2015, these emotions have mostly passed. Do You Want to be a Korean? The customary Childers' kid pose. Though usually Joel doesn't look high. In 2014 I graduated with my Master's degree. Am I even old enough to have a graduate degree? But there's a first time for everything. Thankfully, my career working with old stuff seems to be off to a great s...
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Thin Places: January 2015
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2014 was an interesting year. A good year. The close of one year and the opening of another is often bittersweet, but now that we're almost one full month into 2015, these emotions have mostly passed. Do You Want to be a Korean? The customary Childers' kid pose. Though usually Joel doesn't look high. In 2014 I graduated with my Master's degree. Am I even old enough to have a graduate degree? But there's a first time for everything. Thankfully, my career working with old stuff seems to be off to a great s...
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Thin Places: Life in a Chicken Coop
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Life in a Chicken Coop. I have now been in Arizona for four weeks, and I feel that I am finally settling in a bit. I've driven around Flagstaff, learned the lay of land (to some degree, anyway) and visited some sites around the city. And I am living in chicken coops. Me and my chicken coop. Take it from me, this is much. Nicer than it sounds. First of all, think of the structure part of a chicken coop, not the chicken-wire part. Large portion of the collection is in a fairly new, state-of-the-art collect...
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Thin Places: September 2012
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Summer is officially over. Actually, my summer ended a little over two weeks ago when I started back to school. Somehow I made it through the entire summer without once swimming in a pool. How sad! I plan to remedy that today, as we have the day off for Labor Day. It's strange in some ways that I'm now officially a graduate student. In other ways it feels completely normal. School has provided the rhythm for my life for so long that stepping back into it is as easy as can be. My graduate assistantship is...
