The annual trek to Kansas City to: realign my heart, motivate my mind with intentional living, to be refreshed, encouraged, pushed, pulled and stretched every which way, to laugh, cry, praise and pray… oh yeah. It’s been an amazing time, and I know that these are purposeful days. What better way to take out the…

Tonight we headed to South Bend to see the moving story of a Mennonite family’s epic journey from Middlebury to Shipshewana. Yes, friends, according to Robert, we were going to see The Voyage of The Bontrager… And I know that will not make any sense except to people who live in the Middlebury/Goshen/Ligonier area where…

When I returned from New York following my Father’s homegoing, I had several boxes and photo albums (just a start) to go through. I decided on the arduous task of scanning most of them so that I could give a CD to my brother and sister, mom and Christine. Needless to say it has consumed…

My uncle Alan shot this photo of Dad hiking in the Adirondack mountains (circa mid 70s). The past few days have been a blur of activity and emotion. I haven’t had time to sit and write and even if I had the time, I don’t know what I would have said. On Saturday afternoon at…