About a month ago Brieana was assigned an end-of-eight grade language arts project that involved creating a children’s book for a first grade student at a nearby elementary school. Her student, a little girl named Madeline, told Brieana that she…
Leg 3: Bangkok, Thailand
Catching up on Posts
Yesterday we arrived in Krabi, Thailand after a grueling overnight Tiger Air flight from Perth via Singapore. Now we’re finally in a place where internet access is reliable to post again! But now it’s been weeks since my last post…
The Best Automated Email
“Josh is OOP for Sabbatical, returning 2-Sep-2014. Most of this time will be completely off the grid, out of the country, and thus unreachable. While I am out, the following people can cover any issues by topic“… WOO-HOO! Josh is…
Full circle…almost.
It was early August 2012. We were on our way to the Jimmie B. Keel Regional Library. The brilliant Florida sun was shining through the windshield of my parents’ sedan and my two girls were giggling in the backseat. They…
The Frog in the Birdhouse
After church on Sunday in West Palm Beach, I walked by a decorative birdhouse in the church playground. At the entrance to the bird house sat a frog. It was so beautiful and so perfectly positioned and still that I…
My Florida
This evening we drove from Tampa to West Palm Beach so that we can to spend the next several days at my parents’ retirement community mobile home. For past two years, my father has served as the pastor of a…
The Wild Blue Yonder
Portland => Florida=>Colorado=>Bangkok, Thailand=>Cairns, Australia => Perth, Australia => Krabi, Thailand =>Koh Samui,Thailand => Chiang Mai, Thailand =>Bangkok=> Portland Either we’re awesome… or we’re crazy. That pretty much sums up the reaction of our friends and family upon hearing the…