One morning a few weeks ago, I didn’t get a chance to have my normal dosage of coffee.  By midday I was in trouble.  I had a bad headache.  I was cranky.  I was tired.  I was also discovering something… all of those symptoms indicate an addiction.  No way to get around it by fluffing [...]

Literal meaning… hot seat
Slang meaning… pork
I’m using the latter for this post as we recently had our first experience with buying and prepping it this past week.  A friend of mine and I went to an area of Mbeya called Manjelwa to visit a recommended butcher.  We got there right after the freshly-slaughtered pig arrived [...]

In my last post, I was optimistic about having two hands free yesterday to be able to tell you about Sunday.  As you can see, nothing was posted.  One and one together is… well, you get the picture!
Here is what Sunday looked like:
Nightly dance with Asher.
6:45am - Dana is the first up to begin getting [...]

It is interesting the things you find that:
Capture your baby’s attention (I’ve seen him go almost 5 consecutive minutes looking at it; and he’s only 6 weeks old!):

And put him to sleep (while riding on it in his car seat):

Our parents have helped us out beyond measure in getting back to the States to have Asher. They are wonderful and deserve to be honored and recognized.
My mom and stepfather have a 1994 Isuzu Rodeo that was unregistered and ready to be sold when I called them back in November to tell them we’re [...]

There’s no argument about the foulness of some web content.  It seems as though temptation can always be just a click away.
I cherish my marriage, my Dana as well as the One who gave us marriage.  That’s why I use an internet accountability software called Covenant Eyes.

Dana and I have tried a different setup by [...]

The truth is that we really don’t have a church right now. The closest one to us is a 40-minute walk away in a nearby village. The ferocity of the sun rules it out as a possibility because it is too harsh for my baby’s mama. So, we lean mostly on downloaded sermons [...]

Poor Dana had another bad vomit day today.  Unfortunately her morning sickness has allowed me to put different plastic shopping bags to the test. Food Lion, Eckerd, Harris Teeter have all had contestants but one has outperformed them all.  The Target shopping bag.  The return of Dana’s early morning waffle showed me the Target bag [...]

   Being called Daddy is a consideration that is by far the furthest thing from my mind as Dana and I count down the days to leave for Africa. Or at least it was the furthest thing.  Dana woke up on July 1 not feeling so well. To motivate curiosity was the fact that she was [...]

There’s all the difference in the world between feeling guilty for something and feeling accountable to Someone.
- Andy Stanley
A big weak area in my life is my prayer. I feel I really don’t know how to pray and that’s why I’m hitting the reset button on how I approach it, how I do it, [...]