D o you have Facebook? If so, all of the fishing pictures can be found on my profile there. You can click the badge above to get there. I haven't been online much this week. In fact, I'm probably going to be on a little blogging hiatus for a bit. I will still be posting sporadically, but there are t...

...gnash, gnash, gnash. Got up this morning after getting approximately 25 minutes of sleep (wtf IS it with me up here? Two miles above sea level and my circadian rhythms are all "GO TO HELL"), only to be greeted by a -30F windchill. If it had snowed two feet, you'd best believe I'd suck it up and g...

The wife and I were at Pet Smart last night after I got out of class to buy more cat food for Melvin, the Official SEB Cat, as he was running low. While we were there we took our customary stroll by the adoption enclosure housing the cats looking for a home. As we always do we ended up discussing th...

My face was still red when I got to Barnes & Noble. Not on account of the sprint across the gastro doc’s parking lot and not from the effort of flinging myself into the truck like it was an escape pod and I the last fool left on Flotsam Paradise. I wasn’t actually trying to be funny...

A few years ago my sister Nicole, who is an awesome knitter, taught me how to knit. I completed a small scarf for baby Davis and then just practiced, practiced. Naturally, I got bored and just stopped. Over the years I would pick up my needles, but I couldn't remember how to cast on properly or ...

Ohhhh, how I love where the Lord has placed our family to live! It is an area of the country that is filled with beauty. We are blessed with the dramatic change of the seasons - the new life of spring, the greens of summer, the brilliance of autumn colors, and the snow of winter. And more winter. An...

When I was 7 months pregnant with Maggie and Tim deployed that summer, I had to continue mowing the lawn. When he was still deployed the following spring I had to resume mowing the lawn. Today, when it snowed 6" and Tim is an hour's bus ride away, I propped up a ladder against the side of the van an...

Psalm 27:4,8   One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.   When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek....

I can't decide whether to feel prescient, vindicated, or just terribly sad that much of the anecdotal evidence of financial stress within families that this blog has been tracking for more than a year now, has been confirmed by The Washington Post. The latest Washington Post/ABC News poll out th...

My wife’s firm, C3: Colorectal Cancer Coalition, is organizing its 2nd Annual Congressional Butt-In. The goal is to contact your Senators and Representatives to urge them to create a National Colorectal Cancer Screening Program. You can even text BUTTIN to 30644 and you’ll get an SMS on ...