National Champs

October 23, 2012 | 7 comments

My wife is a National Champion! Yep, believe it or not, she is a member of a USTA 3.5 women’s tennis team that advanced all the way from humble, hardly-anyone-has-heard-of Tri-Cities, Washington, to the USTA National Championship tournament held in Indian

Use the tool correctly

October 22, 2012 | 7 comments

I had a chainsaw in the garage to saw down an unwanted cottonwood tree on the backside of our property. My wife took the saw’s chain in for sharpening, and I had to put it back on the saw before I

Blessings of marriage 15

October 19, 2012 | 10 comments

When I started this blog series on marriage two weeks ago at the beginning of our cruise, I thought it would be simple.  A few ideas, a few lessons learned, a bit of typing, and I would be finished. But it didn’t

Scenes from Alaska 15

October 19, 2012 | 1 comment

More from Glacier Bay… The glacier was calving every ten minutes or so. Kathy caught the aftermath of one cascade of snow boulders rolling down the precipice of the glacier. That glacier is a lot bigger than it looks by-the-way.  It’s

Blessings of marriage 14

October 18, 2012 | 7 comments

God always has our best interests in view and is working a purpose out that will bless us. The more we trust God’s direction, and lean on divine wisdom and direction, the better things turn out, at least in the long