Lights Out
…the gravity of the situation hit me. I had almost died. My heart and breathing stopped.
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The Winter of My Discontent
VACTERL occasionally gives you a little break. Though you may have an onerous lists of tasks required to keep your child happy and healthy, you get into an offbeat rhythm that mimics normal life. You find a place of serenity and you think that you have beaten back the deadly predators. But really you are […]
Read More The Winter of My DiscontentImagine, part 6
Crash! I preface this post with a couple of thoughts. It is impossible for me to put into words how much I love my son. He inspires me daily. Let me be clear I do not in any way, shape or form blame him for what happened to me. What follows is purely the result […]
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Four Years in the Desert Young adulthood kicked off with the end of college. By some miracle, I graduated from Bethany on time with a bachelor’s degree in psychology. I wanted to go to grad school to become a therapist, but my student loan dept (modest by today’s standards) freaked me out. I needed a […]
Read More Imagine, part 3I Can Do All Things (Phil four thirteen)
Go to church long enough and the same topics and scriptures are repeated. If they use the lectionary it is roughly every three years or so. At most churches it is somewhere between 3 and 5 years…except around Christmas and Easter, they are repeated annually. Rarely do you hear a good sermon about Jael driving […]
Read More I Can Do All Things (Phil four thirteen)Just in the Nick of Time
News flash…I bitch a lot about my life online. But my blog is an outlet. I am less cranky in real life. But on this day of Thanksgiving, I would be remiss were I to ignore the blessings I have in this life. I am grateful for the usual suspects family, friends etc… But I […]
Read More Just in the Nick of Time1.2.3.4, I declare a thumb blog
I am trying something new today, mobile blogging. At the moment I am in the bus queue waiting for the…ah there it is. Ahhhh air conditioning! “Love Stinks” is on my iPOD. I am reminded of a staff retreat I attended when I worked at Bethany. We were asked to share our favorite love song. […]
Read More 1.2.3.4, I declare a thumb blogMondaze
I am in a mood. I lost my temper will a colleague last Friday. I have sinse apologized, but I am feeling out of sorts. I am just anxious. I need to just relax. On a totally different note, my wife and I celebrated our 15th wedding anniversary this weekend. We went to a “Rain” […]
Read More MondazeA Day In the Life
Yesterday. Woof! Yesterday was a mess. It started at about 12:45am. Ethan had a bad asthma attack. He came into our room and was barking. I went to get his nebulizer, but he did not sound too bad. By the time I got back to our room, Ethan was having a full on panic […]
Read More A Day In the LifeBond
Jenn and I went on a date Saturday night. We saw the latest James Bond movie (I think it is titled James and the Giant Peach). I am still not exactly sure what I saw. There was a story; I just could not follow it because my eyes were bugging out of my head with all the […]
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