I’ve sat through a lot of soccer games in all kinds of weather. I’ve endured blistering heat and glare from the sun and freezing temperatures with snow whipping across the field. So it means something when I say that tonight’s … Continue reading
October is the best sports month of the year. College Football and Professional Football hits its stride. Almost all of the Professional Soccer leagues are in action. Major League Baseball starts its playoffs in October. The National Hockey League starts … Continue reading
The sun is setting on Elliot’s years of involvement with the soccer program at Kent Roosevelt High School. I know this language suggests I’m waxing poetic and sentimental and perhaps a bit clichéd. But he played his last home game … Continue reading
Dear Olivia, You are so beloved that it’s honestly kind of hard to start in on a letter to show you that, to help you feel that. I guess many of the most meaningful kinds of love are like that. … Continue reading
Elliot was disappointed at the end of his soccer game, last night. His team lost: 4-0. He got to play for 17 of the game’s 80 minutes. Which, in fairness, was the most minutes he’s played in any varsity game. … Continue reading
I got married when I was 21 years, 3 months, and 4 days old. As of today, I have been married for 21 years, 3 months, and 20 days. That means I’ve been married for over half of my life! … Continue reading
Elliot is down to his last two home soccer games: one this Thursday, September 19th, and another the following Tuesday, September 24th. He’s one of nine seniors on Kent’s Theodore Roosevelt High School Rough Riders Soccer Team. They’ve had a … Continue reading
Dear Cor, I’m thinking about this last year, the twelfth year of your life. And it’s strange how many of my strongest and strangest memories cluster around our family time in the American Southwest this summer. It makes me smile … Continue reading
We were married within a year of each other: Marci and me, Michelle and Mike. We went on staff with the same missions agency within a year of each other. We each had our first child within a year of … Continue reading
It’s been a full week since our arrival in Colorado! The ministry components of our time here have been going well (I hope to write more about all of this sometime soon). But one of the serendipitous parts of being … Continue reading