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Category: travel

  • Foreign War and Family Lore

    Two weeks ago, Tim and I used the special computer down at the Brookwood Library that is dedicated to ancestry to search our family tree. Having a common last name like Adams makes it pretty challenging to search up at Tim’s family tree because there are literally hundreds of Adams, Adamses?, dotting the East Coast.…

  • Jump to Recipe

    While making telephone calls at work, sometimes I gently scroll the Internet, looking at recipes to make for our evening meal. Here are three features in a recipe that catch my attention. Number one. It has to have a great photo. Number two. The ingredients have to be affordable and accessible. I order from Walmart…

  • Arrivals & Departures

    When my father passed decades ago, it was a quick. He seemed relatively healthy and active, then just died on his way to work. Within two weeks his body was buried, and within two months all of his paperwork was closed out. His name was carved onto a headstone and deleted from all of the…

  • Acts 13: Missions Trip

    This chapter starts listing some prophets and teachers including Simeon called Niger (Latin for black), Lucius from Cyrene and Manaen, a lifelong friend of Herod (the king that killed both John the Baptist and James). They might have all been rejected earlier as being outsiders or from the wrong group, but here they are included…

  • Going Home

    My travel home from Florida to Oregon was fraught. My cousin and I were both flying out of the same airport, so we mindfully arrived two hours early. So demure. This gave us time to eat together and browse the shops. We said our goodbyes, and I leisurely strolled through security to arrive at my…

  • Driving Violations

    I am in a Bible Study on spirituality and this week’s topic is sin which is the Bible word for the opposite of right. The material delved into three types: wrongs we commit, wrongs committed against us and environmental wrongness. That in itself could keep us going for weeks.  Then it went into layers of…

  • When the Village Revolts

    Recently I heard about a European airlines exploring adult only seating. For an extra 50-100 bucks passengers can be put in a section for humans 16 and older only. The goal is to not have crying babies, getting your seat kicked, or having sticky hands invade your personal space. Tim and I super excited. That’s…

  • YOLO

    I am laying here in bed trying to sort out some decisions that have come up. In life, there’s mostly a lot of mundane choices, but sometimes there are brief windows of opportunity. The phrase “you only live once” flits through my mind. I think that term was trending a decade ago. This time ten…

  • Bag Boys

    Why does the Boomer Generation push back against environmental improvements? I keep getting these posts and memes about how annoying single-use bag rules and plastic straw bans are. Of course I get that it is kind of frustrating when you’re used to having an endless supply of free plastic bags and straws at the store…

  • The Thief & the Missionary

    I just read a heartbreaking letter from a missionary friend. She spent a decade starting and building up a bakery in Africa to support a local church and orphanage. She turned control over to the workers whom she had trained and trusted while she went back to the states to attend to some health issues.…