Tag: biology

  • Genesis 1: 1-13: Beginnings

    The book of Genesis, meaning beginning, starts with God creating our world. It says the Earth was formless and empty and the spirit hovered over the face of the waters. God said, let there be light, and there was light.  While Genesis starts our modern Bible, chronologically the oldest book, Job, references the foundation of…

  • Stay’n Alive

    I took my kid to the pediatric cardiologist today. It was in the medical building complex up the hills of Portland where they have Dorenbacher’s, Shriners and Oregon Health Sciences University Hospitals—all the best medicine we have available to modern humans. The reason we went was to keep my youngest healthy. While she didn’t have…

  • The Tutorial

    Last week I started a new side-gig, tutoring middle schoolers after school. It’s a program in Cornelius, a smaller community just west of Hillsboro. The time commitment is just 90 minutes, twice a week, but still managed to make me nervous starting out. I’ve been instructing adults for the last two decades, so it’s been…

  • X-Men Again

    The theme rings true: the majority is often afraid of the minority that is different.