Do you ever have times that you know will be sad, but you don’t realize how emotionally affected you are until the tears come? I mentioned a few blog posts ago about how Nautilus is closing. Nautilus is the “gym,” if you will, that my parents have worked out at for years. There’s nothing quite like it. Physical Description: Various Nautilus machines are...
A few days ago, I thought it would be a good idea to enact the "Top Ten Tuesday" feature again. It's been awhile. And what's better than a Top Ten Tuesday on a Tuesday?Answer: A Top Ten Tuesday 1 day early!Really, though, I foresee a busy tomorrow, and since I have a window of time now, I decided it better happen today.So here...
Last summer at this time, my business partner, Kristi, and I were sitting in my parents' basement, tossing around the idea of looking into a storefront for our office.After driving through town and writing down the number for every place with a rent sign, we started the search. We looked at anything from a basement room of a large building, to a small...
I awoke this morning at 4:30 a.m... at work. Unfortunately, it wasn't my alarm that woke me up, but the dreaded sound of the weather radio that only seems to have one volume: LOUD.After the fifteen horrific seconds of buzzing, my favorite lady's computerized, choppy voice sounded, saying:"Severe Thunderstorms reported in..."At this point, I had woken up enough to fall out of bed,...
I love pancakes.I truly do. Tonight, as I was driving home from work (the lengthy, strenuous, one-and-a-half-minute drive), I was trying to decide what sounded good for dinner. And then it hit me:Pancakes. With an egg sandwich. So I made it, ate it, and stepped outside into the garage. I had plans to jump on my bike and pedal over to my "gym,"...
This is the second of the two Zambia, Africa videos. It tells our "team" story, and shows more footage of our team members interacting with the kids.Love you all! T ...
I have decided that the life of a fish must be so boring. And by fish, I mean "pet fish." Sea fish have it much better-- I mean, they have the sea. But pet fish? They're trapped in a glass globe filled with colorful rocks and water. End of story.That's their life.I realize the need to keep this in perspective... I doubt a...
Shortly after arriving home from Zambia, Africa this past January, I began working on editing the (literally) thousands of pictures that I had taken. Once I had a pool of favorites to work from, I started plugging them into different projects. First and foremost were a couple of videos that I created. I had visited a blog not long before starting and saw...
Our church in Morton has been going through quite a process over the past several months. I am very excited about it.It's called the "Visioning Process" and through it, we have created a Stewardship Committee and Alignment Team. We hired a group last year to help us conduct a thorough look at the health of our church, inside and out. It has included...
My brother turned the big three-oh this past week.I was thinking... Wow, my brother is 30. Then it hit me: I'm only 6 years behind him. No need to panic, though. As I wrote in his birthday card, he's only a 1/3 of the way until 90. Furthermore, I still believe youth is on our side.Even though every once in awhile, I find...