I have an amazing opportunity. With the rain-out last night all the Royal’s ALCS games are pushed back one day. This means a friend has an extra ticket for Game 5 (one in his group can’t attend the game now on Thursday). Plus the offer came for just face value. I was excited – first […]

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Twenty-nine Years – I was in Kindergarten the last time the Royals were in the playoffs. Today, as the Royals return to the playoffs, I have a kindergartener (plus a third grader and a two-year-old). Over time the world has changed. It was half day kindergarten for me. Now my little girl goes all day […]

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Darcy has not figured out the rhythm of heart beats. With her toy stethoscope pressed against Meg she says, “beeeeeeeeeeeeeep”. Less heart beat than flat-line. Each night we pray over the girls before we ourselves go to bed. Last, watching them sleep, I thought how big they have grown. In between teaching them how to brush […]

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“I thought I heard the Captain’s voice It is hard to listen while you preach.” – U2, Every Breaking Wave Rolling Stone shouted out five stars for U2’s new album, but it did not stop folks from getting upset with Apple for giving the music away for free. USAToday posted that the outrage was not […]

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I would tell you to sit down before you read this blog, but it seems “Sitting for eight or more hours a day can be deadly” (Washington Post). As a child of the “Just Say No” campaign, it was hard to imagine smoking adults. Of course soon enough I was surrounded by smoking teenagers (who often […]

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