Last Saturday, our oldest daughter Kristin celebrated her 36th birthday. It hardly seems possible that this life changing event occurred to Janet and me so long ago. I remember it like it was yesterday. And to think about the journey…
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Today we visited Belfast, Ireland; which was one of the stops that Janet has really been excited about. That’s because her paternal grandfather came from Belfast, and as I said last evening, nobody from the family has been to see…
It’s 10:55 pm, and we’re out at sea. Although the sun technically set around 10:20, it still looks like dusk and I can make out the outlying northern Orkney Islands as I look out our stateroom balcony. The water is…
Well, it’s Sunday night – Father’s Day, 2011. And we are heading up the east coast of Scotland to the Orkney Islands for a day ashore tomorrow. This trip has been full of all kinds of memories and reminders of…
Well, we just returned to the ship from a day in Paris. We set out from Le Harve on the Normandy Coast this morning for the three hour drive to Paris; where we took a tour of the city, seeing…
I am deeply sorry to let you know that although I fully intended to write tonight, it is very late and we had a good, but busy day getting to the ship. By the time everything was done, it became…
Well, tonight Janet and I are in London. I realize that it is 5 hours earlier back in Indiana, but we are getting ready to call it a night, and I did not want to miss a chance to post…
Well, today Janet and I head out for a visit to the British Isles – home of one of the greatest empires in the history of the world. We just landed in New York and then, about 5 hours from…
I’ll bet you thought I was going to write about one of the sons of Jacob – in fact, his favorite son – Benjamin. But you’d be wrong – because tonight I have been thinking about another Benjamin – Ben…
As you already know, Janet and I reached a point in our lives when we both felt convicted that I should attend seminary. It had been many years since I attended school, and I dreaded the process of trying to…