Since my early teens, I have been an avid runner. Staying in shape has always been important to me. The fact that my wife Maja shares this fitness ambition helped me stay fit for the first ten years of our marriage. Then our first child Kali was born. We were certain the demands of parenthood…
Today we pause to pay special tribute to those who sacrificed their lives so the rest of us might continue to live in freedom. And to these honored dead we add the thousands more whose service to their country cost them sight, or hearing, or limbs, or psychological health, or family relationships. Today I pray…
“Dishwasher” noun -ˈdish ˌwȯ-shər, -ˌwä-: one of the most insidious deceptions ever perpetrated against humankind! There is only one dishwasher in our home, and it is not the stainless steel machine that howls and rumbles like a Texas twister well into the wee hours of the morning; No! it is instead the fellow haplessly put…