Love…On The Other 364 Days
My wife and I made a choice very early in our relationship that Valentine’s Day was not going to be an important holiday for us. We would watch the stores […]
An Open Door
This is my family: me and my wife and the two young ones. This was taken about 9 years ago during one of our camping trips with Lake Huron in […]
Christmas Morning
Nestled beneath the branches of the big blue spruce were packages and presents of all shapes and sizes. Some were wrapped in shiny foil and others in brown paper tied […]
One Gift
If you had one gift to give, what would it be? A new car…new house…vacation…or something else tangible? Maybe kindness or forgiveness or understanding…something more ethereal and thoughtful? Perhaps you’d […]
Turning Pages
“Turning, turning, turning through the years…minutes into hours, hours into years…” This lyric from Les Misérables has been gnawing at me for some time. It was just after the last […]
First Vacation (two)
While the air between us was much clearer, the Southern August air was not. Driving through North and South Carolina was sweltering. The cooler mountain air of the Smokies had […]
First Vacation (one)
We had been married for just over a year and had recently found out that we were expecting our first child in the spring. It was mid-August and we had […]
What Friends Are For
Friendship is a difficult thing…and something that I have not quite figured out. I have someone whom I consider my “best friend”…my wife…and I would have a hard time spending […]
Willing to Wait
Waiting has never been one of my best abilities. I can quickly get irritated waiting in the grocery store line or at the DMV or at the doctor’s office. The […]
