• Well, San Clemente Beach, California is only two hours south (approx.)…by plane.  We had a business trip* down there over the weekend.  It was an amazing time.  We got a few hours on the beach Saturday afternoon.  (I love beaches.  It's in my blood or something.)  The girls really enjoyed it.  Christa and I didn't…

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  • This is definitely a keeper.  I think the English language would be greatly improved if children were the wons to daturmin corect spelling.

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  • "I've fallen and I can't get up." Clarification: This post was in reference to the fact that this blog has been limping along lately and is in need of emergency assistance.  The quote was an allusion to this commercial for LifeLine from the 80s.  (It's pretty dark humor I know.)

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  • I just listened to a talk Brian McLaren gave at Mars Hill Church (i.e. Rob Bell's not M. Driscoll's.)  He was talking about the various "stories" we are all born into contrasted with the new (radically different) Story that Christ came to tell of, live out, and invite us all to be re-born into.  I…

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  • Here are the pictures from the ab-fab! week we had in Sunriver, Oregon.  I can't even begin to explain how restful, rejuvenating, and fun it was.  The weather was perfect.  The activities (hiking, biking, kayaking, reading, sight-seeing, etc.) made it like a second honeymoon.  Our hosts really helped us process through our first 3 years…

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  • Tomorrow Christa and I are heading south to Sunriver, Oregon.  We're staying in Portland a few nights and then on to The Oasis for some sweet time of R&R.  I don't remember the last time Christa and I got away for this length of time together (without the kiddos).  It was probably 2004!  Wow…check out…

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  • This video makes me cry…(because I am laughing so hard.)  It's sooooo cheesy it's hard to watch it all the way through.  I dare you to try. The best line from the video, "He is like a Mountie. He always gets his man. And he'll Zap you anyway he can. Zap!" Thanks, Mike for bringing…

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  • Disclaimer:  Some people get offended easily by political discussions.  I am not intending to offend anyone with this post.  I had no specific person / group in mind when I wrote it.  Purely my own ideas about the election, politics, et al.  I am not that old and I live in China most of the…

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  • Here are a few fair photos of the girls…

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  • Sitting in a Seattle public library today.  In my humble opinion libraries are a little slice of heaven.  The free public library is perhaps the greatest invention known to man.  If cynics argue with me about the depravity of mankind, hurling atomic bombs and gas chambers in my face, I counter with the public library…

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