50 Random Thoughts As I Approach A Half Century 1. Life experiences will be fickle and can be interpreted by emotion. People will be inconsistent. But one constant is this: God is good. 2. I always believed my parents were special. Not perfect. But special. At 50 I know it. 3. No one tells …
Jana and I spent the summer and early fall at Mount Carmel Family Camp and Retreat Center in Alexandra, MN. I have been the Interim Director of Programming there the last two years and Jana has been working as their Director of Development. As a result of being away from our home in Cedar Rapids …
I have now learned, this being the second of two “drop-off-daughter-to-college” moments, that said activity leads to an entirely predictable chain of events, the details of which can only be outlined as follows: First, a brief and poorly executed (read “failed”) attempt at fatherly bravado soon followed, (approximately 8.4 seconds after beginning the drive away) by …
I posted this photo on my Facebook page this morning. I posted it to celebrate my older daughter, Christina’s 20th Birthday and remembering, fondly the days when she and her sister, Caitlyn, were just young punks running around the house and enjoying life. Seems like only a couple of years ago… and now my wife …
Let’s have no illusions. Life is sometimes very hard. So.. when I put up a picture of me and my bride… celebrating 23 yrs of marriage.. and when I post a video of us dancing, blissfully in love at our wedding reception… do not be mislead. I am not even pretending to say that life …
