Yep… today is a great day. I sent an e-check today for $829.21 to Nelnet Student Loan Services to PAY OFF my student loans. I began paying them in late 1995 or so and owed somewhere around $19,000. But today, a little over 10 years later, I can finally raise my hands in jubilant victory…

This is the true celebration of today… Jesus’ triumph over death and darkness on the cross! What’s the deal with Halloween anyway? It seems to me that people spend all this effort and money on this holiday which celebrates…what? From the giant blow up yard pumpkins with ghosts swaying above it, to the dead corpses…

Many people ask me what I do to survive while I work for a ministry/nonprofit organization. Well, mainly, I do design work – brochures, posters, flyers, handbooks and the like, and occasional websites… but one of the more exciting things I do is flooplans. Some are confused by this, so in an effort to help…

Last night I was awakened from a deep sleep by the prolonged blast of a ship horn. Instantly, I knew the sound, because like so many people, I had watched Titanic more than once. Immediately, I sprang out of bed and peered out the window. Seeing nothing, I wondered what on earth it was. “Perhaps…