Processing Life

Days 14 & 15 — The Garden Tomb, Walking the Walls and praying for Kevin

Turkish Airlines flight 5 landed at O’Hare last night around 8:30pm. After almost 20hrs of traveling, it was so good to be home and get to see Jeannette and the kids. I don’t feel like I’ve really had to…

Remember snowmageddon?

A little over a month ago the snow storm of the century headed toward Chicago. Now in saying that, this century is only 11 years old. Just the same, the winters over the last 11 years have been lame and what we saw crawling across the weather radars toward us did indeed look like a huge…

Everyone Mad Libs

The only people who don’t like Mad Libs are the people who don’t know what they are. And Nazi’s.

So for all of the unfortunately misinformed, and for all of the short evil dictators with little mustaches out there, this is the idea behind Mad Libs:

Best Father’s Day Gift Ever

A few days ago Jeannette asked what I wanted to do for Father’s Day. There wasn’t a specific activity, but there were specific parameters:

• I don’t want to do any work.
• I don’t want to drive anywhere far

Waiting to get home

I’m sitting at gate C22 at the Minneapolis airport.

Baylee the Ballerina

She comes out in this little blue dress,

carrying the new music box she got for her birthday.

Daddy, will you watch me dance?

Can’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this clip in the last four days.

Day 8: From the top of the Mount of Olives to the Pool of Bethesda

Still getting caught up on my backlog of posts. This one from our second full day of classes. After eating lunch with the students Dr. Sigler and I took off for a little exploratory trip around the Mount of Olives…

Day 12: Amazing views of the desert

Sunday morning we got up early to begin the trip back north to Jerusalem. This wasn’t an uneventful drive though, as we stopped for one of the best hikes on the trip.