Aug 10, 2018once upon a schoolhouseOnce upon a time… there was a little girl and her Papa and an idea about building a school at home. In a little less than a year, that...
Jun 29, 2018the extra mileIndiana has made lots of wonderful friends at High Hopes, the pre-school she’s been going to for the past two years, and I’ve been...
Jun 25, 2018presidential treatmentThis is a chapter from my book ONCE UPON A FARM “and I met the president of the United States . . . again.” —Forrest Gump We have some...
Jun 20, 2018last lettersthis is the last chapter in my memoir “Once Upon A Farm”… Finding the good in goodbye. It was the twentieth of February 2015 and seventy...
Jun 19, 2018i choose loveI have been thinking a lot about this blog post for the last few weeks. How best to thoughtfully write and share it, and also what the...
Jun 15, 2018what about bob?His name is Bob. He’s a successful lawyer whose main office is on Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland. He’s the U.S. consulate to Uganda, he...
Jun 7, 2018same kind of differentWe launched a new website yesterday. Well, I didn’t exactly. But Aaron and Marcus and Steph and some other folks around me did. It’s...
May 24, 2018child brideMy niece Rachel had her wedding reception in the barn this past weekend. Rachel is my youngest sister Candy and her husband Keith’s...
Mar 9, 2018it is wellTwo years… that’s how long the invitation to Joey’s funeral service has been hanging on door inside our kitchen. Two years… that’s half...