10 Days of Top 10 Posts: Honorable Mentions

I know, I know… you have been counting down the days to Christmas the #1 Out of the Wilderness post, but you’ll have to wait one more day. You can do it, be strong! If you’ve ever wondered how Cindy Lauper, Conan O’Brien, Mr. Darcy, Billy Ray Cyrus, or other stars sleep, wondered if a Christian guy is hitting on you, or how to successfully pull off a side hug, these posts are for you.

Honorable Mention #1: How Famous People Sleep

Honorable Mention #2: Signs A Christian Guy Is Into You

Honorable Mention #3: The Side Hug

More about these posts: Just a few of my favorites from the Wilderness library!

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10 Days of Top 10 Posts: #2

Don’t even get me started talking about the events surrounding my discovery of the band in the #2 post. I could go on and on!

#2 Boney M

More about the post: Over the years that have passed since I discovered Boney M, they’ve only risen higher on my all-time favorites list. So it’s no wonder they star in my second most popular post. It was April 2010 when I put down in words my experience with Boney M in Vietnam. Such a memorable trip for a host of reasons. But especially around Christmas, I’m reminded how cool this band was. Why? Because they sing a very popular Christmas song that I bet you’ve heard. No?

10 Days of Top 10 Posts: #3 Slavery and Technology

The post ranked at #3 combines modern-day technology with slavery. Not in an obvious way at all.

#3: Please Tell Me This is Normal

More about the post: Might be the shortest of them all. It was originally posted in August 2012 amongst a few postings of the same nature. I guess I was going through a phase where I questioned some of my own behaviors, polling the audience to find out if I was on the fringes of what’s common. The jury’s still out.

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I Owe $5,000

Some things I just won’t ever forget. One is that I owe this junior high girl $5,000. MoneyWell, she was a junior high girl. And I was just a kid walking around in my Starter jacket hoping to get braces one day soon. I’m not sure what the money was for, if she still remembers, or what inflation hikes the rate up to now… 24 years later. It’s funny though. You know how when you’re little everything seems bigger? Like the house you grew up in. If you saw it now, it would look small. This debt doesn’t seem any smaller now that I’m all grown up! $5,000 is a hefty chunk of change whether I’m a 12-year-old in Stafford, Virginia or a grown man in Tennessee. Let’s just hope she forgot, same with that girl I made cry. Man, I sure had a way with the ladies. I make one cry and owe another thousands. Maybe I can sell my Dan Marino rookie card I scored for $23 from Chris back in ’89. It’s gotta be worth more now. Hopefully around $5,003.49. $5,000 for the one friend, and a $3.49 box of Kleenex for the other.
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10 Days of Top 10 Posts: #4

One of my favorite segments on Jay Leno’s show is the “headlines.” So this next post of mine is probably my favorite of the top 10.

#4: Funny Signs, Newspaper Blunders, And More

More about the post: I gathered these photos over the course of a few months. It was fun to finally post them all together in one post. Originally posted February 2012.