This is definitely a different year for me as it pertains to the holiday season. I did not make the 711 mile drive to NY this year as I was overcome with the flu. This drive is a tradition for me – I have been doing it since 1991. I have driven in some of…

Our Prayer Room is an interesting conglomeration of styles, so in an effort to make things look a little bit better, I decided to embark on building a bookcase around a very ugly and non functional fireplace. We had stuck a piece of waferboard on it for a bulletin board and, as you can see,…

So the other day I was struck from behind by a large hairy man with an equally large gut driving a maroon Chrysler Sebring. I was driving the ministry’s Dodge Ram 2500, which had just been repaired from someone’s decision to put gasoline rather than diesel fuel in it. After visiting the Phillips 66 and…

Someone (Corey Stark?) left me a message this morning, and bathed in the soft glow of the outdoor halogen lights at the Camp, I read: Yep… today is the day. As Caleb Deering remarked this morning (his birthday is also today), “I don’t feel 7!” Well, I don’t feel 34 yet either… except for my…