Journal

#1,658 Sam Celebration.

Today, my very talented dear old friend, Sam, who was my last boss before I became self-employed, did something really brave that I thought he’d ne...

#1,657 Ice Cream Social.

Sunday nights during the summer, our youth meet at host homes for UMYF (United Methodist Youth Fellowship), and tonight it was an ice cream social ...

#1,656 Casting Call.

You know it’s really rare that a major movie casting call pops up in our corner of the world. When I heard about the auditions for John Krasinski’s...

#1,655 Movie Night at Mama’s.

After a hard day at work of playing catch up from the week in the mountains, I just wanted to go out to mama’s and tell them all about it. Ben and ...

#1,654 Home Again Home Again.

After 10 hours on the road + one near tire blow out, we’re back home, safe and sound. Thanks be to God.

#1,653 Wax + Busking + ABCs.

My day started weird. Exceptionally weird. Because of Ben’s ability to grow hair on his face so well, speculation that he might also have quite a h...

#1,652 Lake J 2 + Stop Hunger Now.

This is what today looked like. I spent some of the morning working on the porch of the coffee shop overlooking the lake. Which is, by the way, a ...

#1,651 Lake J Day 1 + Sliding Rock.

So in 2010 our group went with a redneck theme for the camp volleyball tournament, and Andy was the speaker then, too. He and Ben took some nice ph...

#1,650 Chimney Tops + Lake J.

After breakfast, we were back on the road headed for Lake Junaluska, but as is our post-Gatlinburg tradition, first we stopped at the Chimney Tops ...

#1,649 Dollywood Santa.

First of all, last night we left home at 11 pm bound for Gatlinburg, Tennessee, for a quick one-day stay along the way to youth camp at Lake Junalu...

#1,648 Family Lunch.

For the last several weeks, we’ve not been having our regular Friday family lunch at our house because everyone’s been gone or busy, but today we g...

#1,647 Spirit of Main Street.

I got a huge surprise today. Ben asked me to go to the Mississippi Main Street awards ceremony in Jackson with him weeks ago, and I was wary of com...