Monthly Archives: September 2008

Notice my slovenly appearance in this photo–three days growth of beard, puffy face. Do you notice what is in the box? Aunt Julia sent us a birthday package with nice cards for all of us (and a nice little extra for each … Continue reading →

We try to maintain a good perspective on the current election as it unfolds before us. The party conventions excite and entertain. The debates incite strong emotion. It is easy to get too worried about the course of local and world politics in … Continue reading →

I have often written about how much we have enjoyed going to the library in Holly Springs. It is more than that. We talk about life in the car, eat breakfast at the McDonalds on the way, and plan the day as … Continue reading →

My birthday this year was very, very good. You will remember that I went hog wild at the party on Wednesday after our bible study by eating a scoop of vanilla ice cream and and an entire chocolate cupcake with … Continue reading →

We took cupcakes and ice cream to our bible study at Lester’s and Esther’s house.  Everyone stuck around for a good while after meeting to just talk and eat really fattening stuff.  Even I had both a cupcake and a … Continue reading →

Demorest was absolutely wonderful! I made a million new friends, I heard some really nice things, the macaroni and cheese was spectacular (that’s the most important part you know, the quality of the convention food), and I was thankfully sitting next … Continue reading →

When Lorena and I first got married, we lived in Boynton Beach, Florida because I had a job there with Motorola. We went to our annual church convention at Apopka the first year we were there and met an older couple … Continue reading →

It took me awhile to work it out, but to my best recollection, I lived just north of Atlanta in a suburb called Dunwoody in around 1988 for a little under a year. I met a lot of people when I … Continue reading →

The last four days were too eventful to describe in just one post, so I will take a couple of days to describe our four day weekend down in Demorest, Georgia. Lorena and the kids came to my work here in … Continue reading →

After work today, Lorena, Kelly, Christian, and I are taking about a six hour drive to a little town in Georgia for a convention of our church.  We are going to spend the first night at the home of Rene … Continue reading →

Christian and I have been talking about projects and what we want to do this winter. The reality is that we still have three or four things in process that we need to finish. The main thing Christian and I are doing … Continue reading →

A couple of weeks ago I read the classic book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson. Unfortunately, I already knew how it was going to end due to an Alvin and the Chipmunks Halloween special I saw when … Continue reading →

Well, we did not get Kelly’s first video blog filmed this weekend as planned, but it is still high on our plan of things to get done. We did have a busy, busy weekend as we had lots of things to … Continue reading →

With all the speechifying going on during the presidential campaign season, the kids and I have gotten an idea for a new project.  We know that it is a good thing to be able to speak well in public, but, … Continue reading →

We started homeschooling because we were angry, but now we do it because we like it very much. I laughed when I read the “Fertilizing the lawn” entry I reposted today from June 23, 2004. At the time I wrote the post, … Continue reading →

I struggle to write at times like this.  Everything is going well, but there is so much “daily life” stuff going on, there is not much time to reflect on life, work on projects, plan for the future, or even … Continue reading →

It seems like every time we go off on a trip, even for a weekend, we struggle to get caught back up.  Today, the kids are working away at their homeschool while Lorena is getting the household back in order.  … Continue reading →

We spent this weekend at one of church conventions in a little place called Denton. Last year we found that it was one of the few places in North Carolina (if not the world) where there are naturally formed square rocks. Christian … Continue reading →

I love my mom’s twin sister, Aunt Janet. I really do not see her enough. Every time I see her, the conversation eventually get around to the point where she asks me about my kids.When it does, I say, “Do you mind … Continue reading →

We have gotten off to a roaring start in our homeschool this year! We are in our third week of homeschool. The structure of the work we do has changed a little from previous years. Partly this is because the kids are older, … Continue reading →