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…thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars that thou hast ordained; What is man that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visitest him? Taking a peek at the big picture is good practice these days. We can get too involved and develop […]

Things have been rather quiet here lately, partly due to the novelty of this whole blog idea wearing off and partly due to Kyla being sick. Her and the other kids have come down with a rather nasty cold, which by all appearances is nothing more than just that, a nasty cold. A […]

This has just been one of those weeks. Sometimes I just feel great about life, I sit at my desk and bask in the power of bending the computers system to my will. At other moments the confusion and pressures of life can overtake me seeming to crowd out legitimate thought with nitpicking […]

Retired, rusted, bent out of shape,
good for nothing but to be hewn down and cast into the sea.
Making the incredible truth,
plausibly deniable, orange hues denote the passage of time.
At heart’s center time has hardened,
strong as steel, no longer molten; unmovable, firmly believes.
Personal observation, crime against,
objective views, sees more with fascination, some things are just true.
Seeds […]

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems that women love shopping, and not just any old shopping, but shopping for shoes, clothes, bras, pants, and any other female paraphernalia. How can they enjoy something so much that ranks on my personal pleasure scale near major orthopedic surgery? Okay, so maybe I’m exaggerating a […]

A person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumberable poundings, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable […]

…but it’s just been so cold lately they’d turned blue. Ha! No, actually they were blueberries and there were lots and lots of them growing on a lovely blueberry farm about an hour outside of town. You can see pictures of our blueberry picking adventures in our latest photo album, along with some […]

“We are people who drank heavily from the trough of state education, and realized that it’s poisonous.”
Rev. Steven Warhurst

Thankfully I was informed early on that state education was poisonous, and was spared the above first hand realization.
General opinion seems to be that you must begin saving money for your child’s college tuition before […]

I know it shouldn’t be, but my pride is very precious to me. I discover just how precious my pride has become to me every time I am challenged to step out of my comfort zone. I can come up with many excuses for myself each and every time of why I […]