One of the themes of this year - and the calligraphy in the header of this blog - is a topic my martial arts teacher, Sensei Mark Davis, uses in his email signature. “On ko chi shin” is a four character Japanese idiom which can be translated in a bunch of ways. “Study the old [...]

In a conversation with Bryan Person last night, we were discussing why I was even setting up this web site, since I already devote a large amount of time to the Financial Aid Podcast. The essence of discussion was simply this:
Your show is you. You are not your show.
Your show is you. Unless you’re podcasting [...]

I had an interesting thought today while attending Coffee with Crayon. If you haven’t gotten it already, I strongly recommend picking up a copy of The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander. It’s a fantastic book, nearly legendary in some circles. It is to architecture what Gavin de Becker’s Gift of Fear is to [...]

… looks like it’s going to be a nice place to live.
What will be here, at the less than modestly named ChristopherSPenn.com? Mostly stuff that doesn’t belong at my day job publications, like the Financial Aid Podcast or the Financial Aid Newsletter.