Once a month I run a support group for the bereaved.  It’s one of those things that I love/hate.  It’s after normal business hours, which isn’t my favorite, and it usually involves people crying.  On the other hand, I have come to believe that there is something necessary and lovely about helping people who are [...]

Tonight was another night of serving at Ryves Hall.  For a little background, Ryves Hall is an after school youth center which provides dinner and a safe place for kids to go after school.  They do much more than that, but our small group started volunteering there about 8 years ago hanging out with the [...]

It’s been about 2 months since coming home from Guatemala, and the thing that I haven’t shared with most people is that the trip left me more drained than I expected and willing to admit.  I tried the usual strategy of “fake it ’till you make it”, hoping that if I dove back into the [...]

June 7, 2008 we all woke after it rained all night long to find that we were surrounded by water.  All of us.  All over our communities in Terre Haute, Brazil, Clinton, Prairie Creek.  I watched the news obsessively, compulsively to see that people were being evacuated, homes destroyed, cars under water, devastated.  I [...]

I have been sick for about a week, which is about a week too long for my liking.  Sore throat, coughing, congestion, fatigue…the works.  I missed work and lost my voice and spent a lot of time napping.  The advice of others was to rest a lot.  Sleep a lot.  Take it easy.  I know [...]