news from Kansas….

………..nothing yet.
Mel is sleeping…………….. fitfully.  The contractions have not really progressed.
Martin and I are at the agent’s house trying to get some sleep.
When things change, Steve will call us and we will get up and go straight back,
But for now, nothing to tell.
These things can go fast or they can take forever, only God and [...]

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in the airport…..

Just posting to say HI as we wait for the plane
 
***for those who think that’s a starbucks cup, zoom in, look closer,….it’s Seattle’s Best.  Which was the closest thing to Starbucks on Concourse C

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review: sex and the city

Yes, I actually went to see this movie.
Yes, I know. I had always avoided the show. I mean how could I possibly enjoy something whose theme appeared to be all about promiscuity? How could it not be with such a blatant title?
Well.
While I still don’t know anything about the TV show, I [...]

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sock puppets for Jesus

I just ran across a back entry in one of my on-line journals and it had this thought:
“Lord make me your sock puppet. Just the human casing wrapped around your hand reaching out to minister to the world round me”
wow. I don’t know what kind of coffee I was drinking that day, but [...]

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drifting

perhaps it has someting to do with the severe lack of sleep recently in my life.
perhaps it has to do with some highly charged situations I’m currently involved in
perhaps it is the fact that the style of the writer of the bible study I’ve been doing this summer is just not quite “getting to me”
but [...]

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self help books

I used to think Bible studies were basically Christian self-help books.
I mean once you were “right with God” why would anyone have to go to another one?
I thought it was only people who needed to know more about the Bible or to learn about God who would go to a basic bible study. And [...]

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Secondhand Lions

Just saw the movie “Secondhand Lions” this past weekend.
Had no idea what I was getting into.
It was recommended by a friend of ours who likes horror, so I didn’t know what to expect.
Turns out it was a sweet character development piece. The type of movie that hardly ever comes out of Hollywood anymore.
Robert Duval, [...]

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what are the monsters under your bed ?

Under my bed? well right now there are lots of framed photos and unframed artwork. There is also a fairly well used heating pad and a stack of Chemical & Engineering News and Science magazines from last year that I still haven’t finished reading (the ones from this year are still in my [...]

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the family gathers….at funerals

like a lot of large extended families, our tends to gather together only at funerals.
two weekends ago we experienced this yet again when Martin’s Aunt Charlotte died. Martin saw people he hasn’t seen in 9 or more years and I meet family members that I had never seen before. It’s not that these [...]

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water and weeds

In blog surfing recently I ran across a story and I honestly can’t remember where I read it, but it is haunting me…in a good way.
This lady was out watching her children run through a sprinkler in her yard and she found herself looking at the difficult weeds along her path. They’d been [...]

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