Tag: faith
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Climb Any Mountain

photo courtesy of Joshua Earle on Unsplash We have a Colorado daughter who was inadvertently born in Fort Collins when I didn’t make it back home to Wisconsin in time for her birth. Unexpected yet wonderful. Courtney had fallen in love with Colorful Colorado at an early age. When she was quite young, she…
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Who’s Among Us?

photo property of Dayle Rogers When you have a nine-year-old and six-year-old boys able to rally a group of teenaged girls to play a game that none of them are really familiar with, it’s quite an accomplishment. I can chalk it up to the adorable natures and over all cuteness of these boys, which are…
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Not Part Of The Plan

photo courtesy of Gayle Carlson Kate and Alex, my niece and her husband, have lived in Portland, Oregon for several years. It rains quite a bit there, but rarely does the temperature drop low enough to provide the specter of a winter wonderland/compromising conditions as it has this past week. Kate and Alex found themselves…
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The Anguish Of Adjusting

We’ve had an unusual winter for Central Florida. Typically, we have a week of really cold weather–which would translate to anything below 60 degrees–and a little bit of precipitation. This year, we’ve seen more cold days and rain, which brings a dampness that causes the cold to cut through to your bones. Yes, we are…
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The Gang’s All Here

photo courtesy of Abhishek Singh on Unsplash Living in Orlando provides us with the unexpected and unusual. Besides all the theme parks and kitschy places to shop and eat, we have unusual birds, which have many birders (that’s what they’re called!) lurking around, staring at the world through binoculars. We’ve got flamingos in all…