Family
Visitors, friends, and photos oh my!
Over the next few days our friends Nicholas and Leslie are visiting us from the USA. We met Nicholas and Leslie…well actually, I guess we met them through a few different internet communities we were a part of. Over time, we began ichatting and calling regularly. Now, after having spent New Year’s Eve with them [...]
Children See and Do
Recently I had a mother from Geneva send me this video under the title- ‘Very True’. At first, i thought, ‘ok- maybe I’ll watch it but it probably another silly video’. Now, I am glad i watched as it is…very true! There is another interesting conversation happening at Jason’s Clark’s blog based on a post [...]
Ideas for Lent
We are officially entering into the Lenten season tomorrow. If you are looking for some ideas, maybe this site is for you. It looks cheesy, but if you live in Europe and sign up for the text messages, who knows. Maybe, just maybe you will get some good ideas. Here is an article from the [...]
Remembering my wife…today
I had hoped to use yesterday as an ideal opportunity to express my devout love for my wife on this blog…but i missed that chance. And despite the fact that many believe as Nicholas Fiedler points out that ‘much of the story of St. Valentine may be more legend than fact”, I still choose to [...]
In Honor of Ruby Dell Belvin
The end of my trip to the US for Christmas has taken a couple of weird turns. The one which i am least excited about it the amount of time i have spent thinking about death. Yeah, “happy new year”. Just the other day i attend the funeral of Ruby Dell Belvin. A woman aged [...]
Crackberry Addiction: Signs of the times
The following article is in many ways an indication of the signs of the times. Living and working in Geneva there are loads of people who seeming live via their blackberry. Although i think i know several people who are doing pretty good at balancing work, family, and the “crackberry” (as it is beginning to [...]
A couple of days with Laura…
The last few days I’ve spent with Laura. Normally, in the US, we’d be celerbating all weekend with family over the Thanksgiving holiday; however, this year we merely celebrated a meal with our friends at the American Episcopal church and took some time for ourselves. On Friday, Saturday and today, we committed just to spending [...]
Choosing church, for the church
I’ve been listening and reading quite a bit lately on “the church” and various people’s response to the church’s failure to live up to its beliefs. Having come myself from a “mixed-bag” experience of Christ in and out of the institution, I’ve come to realize that i am not so sure what is most necessary [...]
Thinking about things to come…and plotting goodness
Last night Laura and I went to a Geneva pre-screening of the movie An Inconvenient Truth. It was quite compelling. Over the course of an hour and forty-five minutes, sitting in a packed movie theatre, we watched as the story of climate change was unveiled before our eyes. Sure, I’ve been in conversations with others [...]
The Miniature Earth
I cannot with 100% certainty verfiy all of the statistics in this video; however, i still think it is worth thinking about. There’s no music, but i have the feeling if you listened to “One” by U2, it might make for an interesting combination. Try it and see what you find. Send to Facebook
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