HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! I have three moms I would like to thank for all their love and prayers throughout my life. My very own mom (who just turned 80 yesterday) is my very best friend. She is the rowdiest 80 year old I know, and I miss hanging out with her! My mother-in-law, who has prayed faithfully for me for the past 21 years, and mom Kuhn, who raised me through my university years! These women are second only to the mother of Jesus, and I love them very m...

Today is Tim's birthday and he is on a farm, building a shed, surrounded by nature, fields of growing things, and the sounds he loves: highland cattle and their hairy calves, bleating sheep and their gorgeous little lambs, Clydesdale horses, chickens (and their fresh eggs), dogs, and even cats. He is eating home cooked meals by someone who really knows how to cook (aka not me!) and is watching his children work transplanting seedlings from an enormous greenhou...

Henry David Thoreau said as he stood on the shore of Cape Cod in the 1800's, "a man may stand here and put all America behind him." Although I thoroughly enjoyed standing on the same shore, only now that we are in Canada do I truly feel that I have all America behind me. Interesting fact though, as we venture east into Canada we will be going even further from home than we have been yet. At Key West, the very southernmost tip of the continental United Stat...