Taking Chance

Go See This Movie!  And don’t forget the tissues.
Kevin Bacon once again proves his Awesomeness and the whole story is very touching.

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Forecast: Spring with a chance of rain

This is a typical March here in Oregon.
Just when you’ve slogged through the longest short month of February.
Just when you think it might ease up a little with all the rain and gray skies.
Just when you have “Spring Forward” and have changed all the clocks in the house.
Just when you see the dogwood trees and [...]

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Roadside Work

Yet another driving rant…why is the simple act of going somewhere fraught with so many obstacles and frustrations?
I am driving to my sisters (to paint, what else?) and it is less the ten miles and two main roads away, shouldn’t be difficult, right?  huh!
For some reason the people that schedule the road work crews forgot [...]

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Scrapping the camping & other stories

One of my favorite pictures of Chris, taken on the beach at Humbug State Park.   It took him four days to actually relax enough to sit on the beach.   Relaxing isn’t his strong point.   He pretty much likes to be in forward motion of some kind.   I like to tease him [...]

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The Shack

Dad gave both Melissa and I a copy of this because it apparently is the best book ever.   He seldom gets excited about things like books, and I can’t recall that he has ever bought another brand new copy to give away, because it’s that good, so it must be…really good.
Now, I have to [...]

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Bill Bryson on Australia

I love travel writing, especially with a good mix of history and humor.  Few writers do this as well as Bill Bryson does.  Here is an excerpt from “In a Sunburned Country”.
Every cultural instinct and previous experience tells you that when you travel this far you should find, at the very least, people on camels.  [...]

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road rant

Don’t you just hate it when a car pulls out in front of you–all sudden like–and then you glance in your rear view mirror and see no cars back there for, like, a mile???
I do, and it doesn’t matter what kind of car you are driving, what speed you are going, what time of day [...]

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from “Stepping Heavenward”

“Stepping Heavenward” is one of my very favorite books, which I first heard on the radio, being read by one of my very favorite authors, Elisabeth Elliott.
“It is a marvel to me why God allows characters like mine to defile His Church.  I can only account for it with the thought that if I ever [...]

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mind boggling question

I was gonna meet a friend at a local coffeeshop this morning….when I woke up I wandered into the kitchen, per usual, to make coffee.
Then I stopped and asked myself, “Do you need to make coffee before you go to coffee?”
Well, the answer to that questions was answered by my own body, turning back to [...]

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Go R.A.P somebody

The other day I wrote, by hand, thank you notes for Christmas presents received and it was a big hit! I received so much feedback, you’d think I’d baked a batch of cookies–with that cookie smell wafting throughout the house.
Here are some of the thoughts on being grateful/thankful that prompted me handwrite real [...]

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