As I am listening to Barack Obama’s A Promised Land, now 31 hours into it out of 40 hours, he spends some time talking about the personal cost of serving as a staffer in the White House. He spells out the family separation, the long hours, the constant weight of the work, the consistent criticism…
Category: Wendy
Vegerville visit
The kids are off to school, the autumn routine is in full swing and the weather is reminding us that summer days are almost over. We even have had the furnace on a couple of nights! Change is in the air! Wendy and I had talked about visiting a number of small towns in the…
The boys
Rick and Alison have two dogs…. “the boys”. Oliver is older and lighter brown. No doubt about it, he’s in charge. The younger, Ebenezer, has more energy and certainly doesn’t mind pushing Oliver around for as long as Oliver will let him. They are so much fun to watch and play with – and to…
Hybrid Thoughts 