Inside the Minds of Valerie and Mike (and Anna)
Rule We live in a world of rules. They are everywhere. Most of the rules make a lot of sense. (Could you imagine what driving would be like if didn't have any traffic laws?) Some of them have outlived their usefulness. (Who cares which side of the street I tie up my donkey?) Some of them... Continue Reading →
Time Let's face it, no matter how you slice it, time does not appear to be our friend. When we are looking forward to something, it crawls. When we are enjoying life, if flies by too fast. Once gone, it never returns... leaving us with nothing but memories and nostalgia. It dulls our senses and... Continue Reading →
Hope Ferguson · Climate change · Pandemic disease · Drought · Famine · Global population that exceeds global resources · 1%ers · Waning educational standard · Economic fragility · · · (the list is endless) The future is full of scary boogiemen. Advent asks us to take a radical position. It dares us to hope. It dares us to face our deep desire that God be manifest... Continue Reading →
This is the second year in a row that I will challenge myself to hold to a daily Advent discipline of capturing a photo each day based on a prescribed daily theme. I will again post these photos in three locations: The VMWishes blog site (here) The VMWishes photo gallery The CTS Lutheran Facebook page... Continue Reading →
Last year I was not thrilled with my English teacher. This one is already so much better in every way possible. Including that we have creative writing assignments. The first one was to write about a natural event. Here is what I came up with. Can you tell I kind of what snow? Enjoy... Twenty... Continue Reading →
It has been a while since I've posted anything. I've wanted to. I've had ideas. I just haven't found the time (when I wasn't entirely exhausted) to actually do so. I spent this morning cleaning out my email inbox (got it down from 2500 entries with 350 unread to only 50 and none unread.)... Continue Reading →
It's May. So it's spring. Thus we're nearing the end of the school year. And this year, the end of the school year in this house promises to be more chaotic than most years. With an 8th grader and a 12th grader, it's going to double the extra chaos. Plans are being worked out and... Continue Reading →
Yesterday was so much fun! It was the Humanities Showcase for our New York documentaries that we made from our New York trip back in the fall. Each NYC group created a main documentary with a professional interview, a history documentary, and a lower Manhattan documentary, and a midtown documentary. For both the lower and... Continue Reading →
What a great ending to my venture into the 2014 Lenten photo-a-day discipline. I wasn't sure where I was going to go with this today. I was ready to ruminate about our eagerness to move on from the self-reflection of Lent to the joy of Easter resurrection, but having to spend this day between the... Continue Reading →
Here it is. My final confirmation homework assignment from my last confirmation retreat. Its been a long 3 years at times, but they have all been good and fruitful. In this assignment we had to create a single Belief statement after looking at the Apostle's Creed. It was kind of challenging to narrow down to... Continue Reading →
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