Intentions are no good without some sort of accountability mechanism. Here’s how I’m doing so far on the 12 intentions I made for 2012 after the first three months of the year. Can you believe we’re already 25% done with 2012?! 1. Run. 10K scheduled for April 15. And I […]
Last Sabbath, the theme of the day was definitely the second coming. The Sabbath School quarterly focused on it. Then the sermon centered on it as well. That afternoon, we couldn’t stop talking about it. And one of the main questions that kept resurfacing was, if we really believe the […]
The Ann Arbor Big House Big Heart 10K, which I am registered for, is less than 3 weeks away. Running a 10K this year was on my intentions list. But really, it’s something I’ve intended to do for longer. I had wanted to run one around December/January of 2010/2011, but […]
I have a hard time answering that quintessential road trip time passing question “If you had to give up one, what one sense could you live with out?” But I can answer a related question. The one sense I could not live with out is the sense of smell. Yes, […]
2011 ended as it began, attending GYC. And GYC is why some of these posts, though written ahead of time, were not shared until after the New Year. Finally, we’ve reached the end. Honestly, I haven’t been that aware of the passing of the New Year over the last several […]
When I moved to Virginia three and a half years ago, I was shocked to see how nicely people dressed, all the time. Growing up in Michigan, it seemed as soon as the temperature dropped below 40 degrees, the automatic garb was jeans and a hoodie–and that was relatively dressed […]
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