Category Goin’ to Town

The Blacksburg schools pickle

If you haven’t been following the drama, tension and amazing craziness that has resulted from the collapse of the Blacksburg High School gym earlier this year, it’s a good time to jump in. It’s about to take some strange plot…

About WBC: Don’t Feed the Animals

“Westboro Baptist Church” comes to Blacksburg tomorrow to spew hate in the form of picketing and insults. They have toured the U.S., making many enemies but showing no love. I put the name of their organization in quotes simply because…

My Town vs. Foursquare iPhone apps

I’ve always been enthralled by the ability of the iPhone to allow you to use location-based apps. I wrote an early entry about Loopt vs Whrll. Since then, there’ve been a series of great apps out using the phone’s capabilities…

NRVHub to give $500 to local church

A new local news site – The NRVHub – is sponsoring a great competition. The local church that registers 100 users for their site by October 31 will receive $500! I’d like to humbly ask you to consider registering to…

StrengthsFinder Results

Sometime ago, I read Mark Buchanan’s book Now, Discover Your Strengths and took the StrengthsFinder inventory. I have discovered that it really helps to communicate with others in leadership arenas when you speak the same inventory “language.” I’m posting my…

I get around…

I saw this on a fellow Twitterer’s blog and thought it would make for an easy blog entry on Monday… visited 20 states (40%) Create your own visited map of The United States. visited 8 countries (3.55%) Create your own…

Updated feed

I’m updating my blog feed to be If you are subscribed in a feed reader to , you will need to update the feed to the new location. I think it should do it for you automagically, but check…