Last night was the first Ugly Christmas Sweater celebration for our youth group. I was so impressed on how creative these guys and girls got and we had a great time doing a fashion show complete with pumpin’ club music and crazy dancing. So here are a couple photos from the night. My sweater/sweatshirt thing…

I was only 14, but I remember the morning of April 5, 1987 pretty well. It was early Sunday morning when we heard that the Schoharie Creek Bridge collapsed after three decades of service to the New York State Thruway. “One car and one tractor-semitrailer were on the bridge when it collapsed. Before the road…

The Starkweathers took me bowling on my birthday. After much deliberation and research, we found ourselves at OC Lanes in Osceola, which is, to put it kindly, a dive. But we had great fun cosmic bowling (4 black lights, some Christmas lights, disco ball, and laser lights) and occasionally they would also turn on the…

Some things I have learned in thirty-five years of life [in no particular order]. 1. Deal with it and move on. Life is too short to keep everything inside. 2. Laugh a lot. There are many insanely crazy things that we all say and do every day. Learn to find the humor in those stressful…