Coming Out

Coming Out

It”™s time to stop living the lie that I”™ve been living.  The struggle has been a drain on my conscience, especially since I have been living one way in secret, keeping even my wife in the dark (sort of).  It”™s time to be honest ““ it”™s time to acknowledge not merely a radical change for me, but more of an acknowledgment of who I really am-who I”™ve always really been.  I really can”™t keep it a secret anymore. I am a . . . Mac User! Three weeks ago, I bought my first iMac and have been living in both the PC and Mac world since.  Two weeks of using both, I can say I”™ve been continually frustrated with my PC and continually satisfied using the Mac.  Today that all ends.  I have come out of the closet and embraced the Mac way of living. First, a little history.  In college, I was a Mac user.  My university had two computer labs:  a PC lab that most of the students on campus used and a Mac lab in the music and art building.  Since I was a music major for a year and half I regularly used a Mac.  At that time (late 80s, early 90s), PCs were a drag to use.  I wrote all my papers and even did a substantial amount of church work on Macs.  However, as I moved into seminary, the world of Mac was simply not as compatible or suggested.  So I became a Mac hater ““ why in the world would anyone own a Macintrash?  Yet, secretly, I have always been attracted to...