It’s late here. I’m camped in the living room with my two youngest daughters. One is home from college and the other will complete her high school career this week. The topic of chat is centered around what dresses they will be wearing to the younger one’s high school graduation. After a missions trip to Central Europe, my baby will intern at summer camps for five weeks, and then pack her bags and head off to a much-anticipated collegiate adventure. She’s here with me right now, and yet, I can almost feel her slipping away from me into full-fledged adulthood. Read more →

Paradigms. I remember that I was in college the first time I heard the word used. I didn’t know what it meant. We had a bowling alley down on Villard Street called the Paragon Bowling Center. I wondered if there was any relation between paradigms and paragons. I didn’t actually know what either of the words meant. It seems like paragon was often paired with virtue, while paradigms needed to be shifted. I eventually came to the understanding that someone who was a paragon of virtue was someone who had strong morals that stood firm in the face of opposition—an Read more →

I have missed blogging so much!  How bout you Lisa?  Haha.  We have both seemed to be otherwise distracted BUT that doesn’t mean that this whole issue is on the back burner in any way. Let me list some great things that have happened in the last month.  Feel free to pick & choose haha.  Since this blog is a Diary then this is what happens when I wait a month between posts.  I know I know ….. I’ll get them down shorter later.  Plus this is probably 3 posts in one  :-) 1. Kickball fundraiser in Climax, Minnesota Hats ...More

Here are a few lyrics from one of my favorite songs called VERTIGO, by U2 Hello, Hello I’m at a place called Vertigo It’s everything I wish I didn’t know Except you give me something I can feel ————- Hello, Hello We’re at a place called Vertigo Lights go down and all I know Is that You give me something I can feel Your love teaching me how Your love is teaching me how How to kneel, kneel ————- Hey I know lots of my early posts here have been something like posts with deep messages but I want to ...More