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I’ve mentioned a couple of times in this blog that Kami and I have been in a special season of prayer since Easter. It officially ends on Sunday the 31st. We asked several people via email to watch and pray with us and I will be in touch with them to get their wisdom. I [...]

My father and mother came up to spend a couple of days with us so that they could see their new great-grandson. I have only seen them once in the last 18 months — and that was for a few hours when my mother had some surgery done in Columbus, Ohio. They live in a [...]

I did a wedding on Saturday for a Marine Corporal. His best man was a Marine sergeant, a young man in his early 20s. I don’t want to use his name so let’s just call him “Tim.” Tim is a tall man, perhaps 6-4, broad of shoulder on a lean frame. He seemed a little [...]

You know I can’t let the weekend go by without a mention. As I look out my window and see the Stars and Stripes and the Marine Corps flag snap in the spring breeze of Michigan, I say a prayer of thanks for the freedoms we enjoy, and I pray for the families of those [...]

Kami and I are just over a week away from ending a six week season of prayer. Thank you to all who joined us. We will be sending emails to a dozen people who we personally asked to pray for us to see if they have wisdom to offer us about how we should proceed [...]

Twenty six years ago today, we lived in Glasgow, Scotland. Kami was three weeks overdue to deliver our first child but the National Health Service doctors (we never saw the same one twice) couldn’t have cared less. She was miserable. She would sit on top of our tiny, out of balance dryer or ask me [...]

This weekend, Duncan was off with the Marines for his Reserve duty, Kami had some appointments on Saturday and I was on my own. I decided I didn’t want to spend my day at home so I headed north about an hour to the Birch Run area. Birch Run is a busy place, lined on [...]

Regardless of where you stand politically, the media’s complete failure to deal honestly and fairly with both parties is tragic. Victor Davis Hanson of the Hoover Institute posted this on National Review Online. It is the best single column I’ve ever read exposing the shameless double standard we now face. The humor impaired might not [...]

My friend, Greg England, had a blog on a similar subject this week. My turn, now.
I blog. I have often wondered if I should continue to blog but, so far, its positives outweigh its negatives. I even went so far as to multi-site my blogs — one for personal, political, rants, humor, grandson pics, etc. [...]

Several wrote in wondering what questions the public high school students ask most frequently. I’ll try to reconstruct them here but, in the interests of honesty and accuracy, let me stress that I do not bring their questions home with me so I am working from memory over the last several years. Also, these are [...]