For Valentine’s this year I got Megan the BBC’s Pride and Prejudice – which is nearly six hours long. Adding to the romance of the gift I promised to sit down and watch it with her. So with popcorn and Junior Mints, I finally realized how someone was able to come up with the idea […]

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For me to live is Christ and to die is gain. Philippians 1:21 Phoebe sits on the stairs. The tears are literally running down her cheek as she cries. Her breakdown over shoes, while I sit here staring at the blog – wondering how to express my sadness? How is it so easy for her […]

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“God says the inside is beautiful, but it has bones in it.” ~ Ivy Salmon in a Can. With Tuna there is little recognition of the fish that once swam (or the dolphins that may also be included). But with Salmon it is as though they chopped the whole fish into sections and squeezed them into the can. My wife was […]

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 On Sunday we signed Ivy up for t-ball. Then we went store to buy her a tiny glove and begin the task of learning to play catch. It was the moments you would expect (from tears after being hit to jumps of joy when the ball stayed – can not honestly write “caught” – in […]

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Ivy prepared to cross the street by herself. She paused to check for cars. Seeing one over a block away, she waited. The car was so far away I urged her to go on across (the car turned on a side street before ever coming to our house). She ran to the other side and […]

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