Category: Real Life

  • Favorite Weekend Moments (before I forget)

    Favorite Weekend Moments (before I forget)

    I wish I had remembered my camera for our latest camping adventure. Instead, I have mental snapshots for each time I said, “Oh, I want to remember that flower, that rock, that stream, that person doing that thing.” Unfortunately, those images are already fading from memory. I jotted a few things down in my journal…

  • Visiting Montevallo

    Hannah and I took a little field trip today to American Village to listen to Mr. Robert Lightfoot, Director of the Marshall Space Flight Center, talk about his life in small-town Montevallo, Alabama, to director of one of the ten NASA centers in the US. I don’t have any pictures from his talk because I…

  • I enjoyed a little camping get-away this past weekend. Here are a few of my favorite images (click to enlarge):

  • Childlike faith

    As Karl read the Bible to us tonight, Benjamin let out a genuine, “Wow,” over something Jesus did. I earnestly pray he never loses that sense of wonder.

  • Unknowns

    My friend Molly tagged me for a meme. I’m supposed to list 7 unknown facts about myself. It’s much too difficult to think of 7 different things that I haven’t already shared on this blog, so I’m going share 7 things that I don’t even know about myself. You may wonder how it’s possible to…