Two weeks into a whirlwind 10-week home ministry assignment* and we are deep in the trenches of living that back porch life.
Read moreCommit the Golden Days to Memory
Once a year I come on here and bemoan All The Things and apologize for Not Posting Regularly. Blogging is such a peculiar art as, with most online media, one feels like one has to be present all the time, and if one is not...
Read moreDay trip to Kilkenny (I think)
We had big plans to take a day trip to see a "castle" and then a nearby "swiss cottage." Well, we found a pretty great castle and village in Kilkenny, but it turns out the swiss cottage was about 100km in the opposite direction, so...
Read moreHere + Now (Summer 2016)
Friends, it was a long one. Summer, that is. It was so long, in fact, my kids woke up at dawn on the first day of school, dressed and fed themselves, and ran into school with glee as if they couldn't wait to be away from me (not that I'd blame them).
Read moreWhat I'm Into {July 2015 edition}
We're enjoying a full house as a of late, a dozen Wisconsin team members joining Matt for a week of serving, praying and kids-clubbing, and some KC friends joining me around the breakfast table every morning (above photo courtesy of one such guest)...
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