Our family is doing something exciting tomorrow – we are participating in the Christian Filmmakers Holiday Contest. Have you been wanting to try Christian filmmaking out? This is a great way to do it – just a twelve hour commitment; only a one minute film. We had a great time this evening as a family [...]
When a terrorist started a fire on a recent Northwest flight from Amsterdam to Detroit, most passengers sat in shock, but Jasper Schuringa jumped over four intervening passengers, tackled the man, beat out the flames with his hands, and subdued him. We’re thankful he had the manly virtues of courage and initiative – he probably saved [...]
Duke Medical is about 55 miles away, a route requiring us to cross a heavy traffic zone that makes drivers from larger cities shake their heads. I once met a CBS News camera crew based in Atlanta that got caught in it; they couldn’t believe a city as “small” as Raleigh (what, a quarter million [...]
After we got the preliminary diagnosis of my cancer in December, Melanie began posting on my Carepages site. After a few messages, though, I realized that my silence was worrying people, so I picked up the thread and began writing. This is my first post in the series; I will include links at the bottom so [...]
This was an interesting story in the Raleigh News & Observer today: A successful entrepreneur goes into the local prisons and teaches inmates how to start their own business when they get out. His “start small and work hard” approach is good advice not only for felons on their way out of prison but for [...]
Does Christmas shopping have to be a burden or puzzle? Not necessarily. If you have good ideas, and the right attitude, you too can survive the annual shopping flurry. A few principles we’ve adopted over the years help manage the gift budget for our family. First, having multiple sons (six in our case) introduces economies of scale. [...]
Dear Friends and Family, Hal and I spent the day at Duke today consulting with the oncologist and thoracic surgeon. There is a very large tumor behind Hal’s breastbone. It is providential that it is in this site because if it were *anywhere* else, he could not have had a tumor this large and not [...]
It’s been one of those weeks for our family. Actually, it’s been one of those years, but that’s a story for a different time. In the midst of Hal’s pneumonia and probable cancer diagnosis, three of the children recovering from surgery, three of the other children sick and getting sicker, our oldest son still at [...]
Dearest Friends, I didn’t think I could bear anything else right now, but my loving Father had a different plan and though I can not understand it, I accept it from His hand and trust Him to bring us through it. I told some of you earlier this week about Hal’s pneumonia and Katie and [...]
Raising Real Men is featured in this week’s Carnival of Homeschooling at The Homeschool Post, along with a ton of other great blog posts – both Christmas oriented and not. Now that we are home from Apologia‘s great Christmas party, I can’t wait to spend some time looking through these great sounding posts! //
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