Thankful

Robin Williams: my most favorite actor

Mork and Mindy was a favorite when I was little. Oh how I would laugh. I probably didn’t understand most of the jokes, but just watching Robin Williams always brought laughter out of me years before anyone ever typed the letters, “LOL.” Though I constantly…

My bittersweet birthday present

September 4th is my birthday (mark that on your calendar for next year).

September 4th this year was also Baylee’s first day of Kindergarten. A day I was incredibly excited about and not looking forward to. She’s done half day preschool a couple…

Meatballs and Spinach and Mother’s Day

As we’re walking down the street after church I say to Baylee, “Today is Mommy’s day. She gets to pick where we are eating.”

“Ah man, the day she gets to pick she’s going to choose something I don’t want like meatballs and spinach!”

Two words you can say that will give someone an instant spirit boost

A couple weeks ago I did a message at church that I felt really didn’t go over that well. It wasn’t my worst ever, but it wasn’t as I had hoped. The collateral damage wasn’t a huge dark cloud, but there was a…

So…last night I got into a car accident

Yesterday I had an unexpected trip to Dallas. Left Chicago at 9:30am and was supposed to land back at O’Hare at 10:50pm. A one day power trip for work that went great, but the details of it aren’t that important.

I get to live here!

This was the view from my window last week when flying to Connecticut:

Pastor Troyer

When I was in 6th grade my family started attending Bethel Baptist church in Merrillville, Ind. We had floated around other places for…

The Funniest Flight Attendant Ever

Last week I flew to Connecticut for work. In full disclosure, I have misspelt Connecticut every single time I’ve attempted to write it for the last month. Thank God for spell check.

Boarding my return flight, I was done being in Connecticut. Nothing personal to anyone…

Another trip around the sun

Today was my birthday. 35. 

Lots of running around during the day. Errands. Shopping for evening festivities. Free Turtle Mocha from Caribou — that was awesome. 

Great evening spending time with family & friends. That’s what I wanted, more than anything. And it was a reminder…