Brugge Blog

A great blog, plain and simple: Social Entrepreneurship at Change.org. I found it earlier this year, but hadn’t read it in a a couple of months, and found that even with close to 200 posts to catch up on, I was reading, and being awed or inspired by almost every single one.
The blogger, Nathaniel […]

Here’s something I like to see: new alternatives to answer the question “what can I do with my money?” that are getting more and more progressive. For about the last 20 years, it seems like the main answer was “make the most money you can in whatever stocks and bonds have the highest return” and […]

A wonderful story came by last week, the kind that catches you immediately with a simple and clear wisdom that it shares. It’s an old story, but one I hadn’t heard before. And it was told during the children’s message time at our church, but it caught many more than just the children.
It’s a […]

The nominees are set, so Bill Moyers can’t be president this time around, but it seems like he should be put in the running for vice president, or cabinet position or some place where he can have the influence he deserves. Or perhaps he should just be left alone to do what he does best: […]

It isn’t easy writing down what you believe, to commit to words the feelings you hold, either strongly or vaguely, but at least privately. Words may not be the best instrument, but they’re what most of us can use, and they give you boundaries to work within. And I think that what a lot of […]

There are plenty of map projections that show the world on a piece of paper, but when you apply scaling measures that aren’t geographic, you get something very different. You get Worldmapper.
The maps there are powerful. Newspaper stories with tables of numbers or even bar graphs of measures such as wealth or disease are […]

Software development is a team sport. Places can try to hide that fact with cubicles and individual assignments, but the fact remains that putting a system together takes a diverse group of people to pull it off: managers, developers, users, testers, writers, the list of roles goes on. But how often is thought put into […]

It was just a year ago that the family cabin started to change. In 30 years, it has had lots of tweaks to its inside, but they’ve been relatively small. Not fancy, but a place that has the well-worn comfort of familiarity.

Now the clan has grown in size, and when we all want to be […]

When we were in La Antigua, Guatemala last August, we saw what looked like film crews in the streets. Asking around a bit, we found out that they were shooting a film called Looking For Palladin. We never got a good description of what the movie was really about, but there is a story about […]

If there is one thing that festivals in Guatemala don’t lack, it’s color. I’ve seen pictures of Semana Santa in Antigua, where people make elaborate sawdust and flower carpets for processions during Holy Week.
Now I’ve just seen a reference to an annual kite festival held in Santiago, Sacatapequez on Day of the Dead (November […]