It has been a weekend of extremes. A wedding and a memorial service in the same day. Friday, I worked from 6:30 AM to 11:30 AM, then drove up to Mt. Hood and dropped off a group of high school guys for a backpack trip (3 hour trip), then went to a wedding [...]
Eleven on Top by Janet Evanovich; 2005; St. Martin’s Press; 310 pages; fiction Evanovich 7/27-7/28
The eleventh (duh) Stephanie Plum novel with the same basic premise as the other ten. However there is a promise of a change as Stephanie has quit working for her cousin Vinnie and is now working for Ranger. I [...]
I started the day at the Multnomah County Courthouse. This is a story that starts way back in May. On May 14 I stopped at Mall 205 to look at baseball cards, when I came out I set my wallet on top on the car. I pulled away and didn’t realize what [...]
At The Crossroads, An Insider’ Look at the Past, Present, and Future of Contemporary Christian Music by Charlie Peacock; 1999; Broadman & Holman Publishers, Nashville, TN; 219 pages; 781.64 P356a; 7/20-7/25
“Creation is useful because it is good. It is not good just because it is useful.”
Music is like water, it is there, it can [...]
I was just leaving a comment on my dear friend Kellys’ blog and I started to cry. It had nothing to do with her blog, all though we miss her and Scotty terribly. Yesterday I came from work and found that one of my 19 year old sons’ friends had hung himself. [...]