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The Gathering
Every Wed. night I attend a 20’s ministry through church. We call it “The Gathering” after worshiping and the message given we usually all go out together after to socialize. This week they changed things up and divided us up: college students went one place, 22-26 age group stayed at the church and hung out […]
Letters from around the world
The month of July I am going to spend my time focused on my 3rd book and it’s not the fiction book I have been working on. The contents of this book I am not revealing but I can promise it will be good. I have been thinking lately and what has really motivated me […]
Keeping Me Guessing
Keeping Me Guessing Francesca Battistelli Coffee cup waking me up I’ve got to board a plane And fly away sometimes Feels like I’m going the speed of light Can’t relax I’m moving too fast I want to find the gold but I don’t have a map I wish that I could know what You’ve got […]
Life Changing Experience:RFK Camp
As I promised I wanted to share my experience a week away all last week working at a camp in Wisconsin for abused children who are all in foster care. I am writing this to the sound of tornado sirens going off. Sunday Counselors arrived in the morning and unpacked, decorated rooms, had lunch, met […]
Live For Today
Father’s Day
While I am back home after a week away working at a camp with children in foster care that were placed there because of abuse I am going to write about my week long experience at camp tomorrow. I will admit I didn’t miss being away from technology. It was kind of nice not having […]
A week away from technology…could you do it?
Could you walk away from technology for a week? Have your phone and computer taken away with no away of using it. A week away from television. Well I am about to experience that as I turn off my computer tomorrow night and turn off my cell phone Sunday morning as I begin a week […]
In the News
Since many articles these days are starting to not allow you to read them directly online without paying I often cannot post an article in a city I spoke in without you being able to read it. Articles from Illinois, Michigan, and across the sea from me in London. London Times article last week. Working […]
Part 2 July 2007
If you are reading this and haven’t read part 1 to where this story begins go back and read my last blog post about how my cat Bailey came into my life. On Friday July 20, 2007 I was at my lake house in Wisconsin. I had just spent the day with my college roommate […]
December 4, 2004
It was a Saturday and I was a freshmen in college living in the town of Macomb, Illinois. That early afternoon I drove to town and pulled up in front of the store called “Macomb Petland” I had been in there before with college friends playing with the kittens and puppies. On this particular day […]