POST 32/2025 GOSHEN IN: Miles later, we're back home. It has been a bit more than a week since we returned from a splendiferous time with friends in California. The time was grand. Walks were wonderful. Food, festive. Events engaging. Travel smooth. The weather was so unlike winter here that we've stayed in more than …
POST 28/2025 SOUTH HAVEN & PERRIN LAKE, MICHIGAN: "I'm going to fly my kite," I told a barber in South Haven a few years ago when he asked me what I was going to do next. I did it again last week, not the haircut, just flew our fifty-year-old kite. Sprite by name. We picked …
Post 22/2025 Goshen, Indiana: In the introduction to The Book of Joy, (Avery, 2016), by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams, Abrams notes, "In this book I have tried to share with you their intimate conversations, which were filled with seemingly endless laughter and punctuated by many poignant moments of …
Post 17/2025 Goshen, Indiana: Friends. Friends are worth their weight in gold. Lynne and Noel are storing a few of our things. The evening before we left Carbis Bay, Marilyn and Steve had us over for dinner. Next day, Steve drove us to the St Erth train station for the five and a half hour …
Post 8/2025 Cornwall UK. This is my second of three posts looking at our experience away from home in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. We were in Carbis Bay, County Cornwall, UK when the March orders of the day all revolved around the novel coronavirus. Normal life shuttered to a stop. Before moving …
Post 2/2025 Goshen IN. The week included: Martin Luther King Day. Inauguration. Frigid temperatures. Looking Back, Looking Forward, Anabaptism at 500. Death of my sister-in-law Doris Mast at age 92. Ducks on the pond again. Soup. On January 21 area Mennonites gathered at College Mennonite Church in Goshen for a worship service celebrating 500 years …
Post 44/2024. I've no breaking news, no bombshell report, no polls comment, no recap of what I've read in various media outlets about the 2024 US election cycle; I have only one word: Harris. That said, I add, I'm taking a break. Tasks to do and we have travel plans where our tablet stays home. …
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