We’ve got a bumper crop of acorns this year. I don’t know how, and I don’t know why. But this year, things are bumping! More than most years. Bump, bump, bump, on the roof of our house. Day and night; … Continue reading
The Kent State University Football Team had its first home game this weekend. And I was invited to attend as a guest of a Kent State University student: my son, Elliot! It felt like the first fully-normal “college thing” we’ve … Continue reading
Dear Cor, Sometimes, I worry you ended up with a birthday at the worst time of the year. The weather can be so hot and humid (like it was at the beginning of this week). And the start of the … Continue reading
Olivia and Cor had their first day of school today. They still have to wear masks within the school building, as a precaution against COVID-19. But still, it’s good to remember that things are way better than they were at … Continue reading
Kent State University’s Move-In Weekend is always a pretty big deal for our household. Our involvement with H2O Church makes this time of year especially strategic. But it’s a lot of fun, too. It’s somehow heart-warming to see the traffic … Continue reading
My children are convinced that the world is going up in smoke. We try to regularly watch the national network news in the evenings, and they’ve been talking a lot lately about historic wildfires in California… and Oregon, and Greece, … Continue reading
I recently finished reading Wendell Berry’s novel, Hannah Coulter. It’s part of a series of fictional stories of fictional people of a fictional town called Port William, Kentucky. But I swear I rarely encounter characters and places as real as the characters … Continue reading
‘Tis the season for soccer. Cor started a sort of training camp for his high school soccer team this week. They practice for four hours a day. And when he comes home, he watches YouTube videos about soccer and practices … Continue reading
My Dad was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2015. I’m really thankful that we’ve had a few years to prepare for the worst of it. For the first couple of years, it was mostly just a flat affect, a softening … Continue reading
I’m coming to the end of another quest: to hike every trail in Portage County in 2021. If COVID-19 was going to “shorten my leash,” I figured I’d make the most of it! At first, I estimated that it would … Continue reading