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2 Adventures Coming!
Adventure #1: we leave for Maranatha Ministries in Port-au-Prince TOMORROW. We will keep you updated on overweight bags allowed in, on-time flights, kids saved and mosquitoes killed. We are taking 20 bags, 50 pounds each, plus our carry-ons that contain our stuff. Check out the towel pile in the back! Also, buy God’s grace our new…
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Sure Hope This Is Legal
My friend Cole Holderman is at Stanford – and was published in The Stanford Journal of Public Health for this very personal article on siblings dealing with childhood cancer. It is an amazing combination of good research and personal experience. I downloaded the article, converted it to a word doc, and pasted it below, so…
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DOG VOMIT AND THE MYTH OF SILVER LININGS
Originally posted on LateToEveryParty: Max about 11 years ago. There is no such thing as life’s “Silver Lining.” My husband and I have moved in with my parents until September. That’s not my anti-silver lining point… My parents are visiting family in Texas and we are watching my mom’s favorite child, Max – a Bernese Mountain dog…
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A Cooley Hymn
Those of you who know me know of my phenomenal musical talent. I have none. So, this poem was written by my sister Janice, music written and performed by my brother David, posted by me. The picture above I had made from a slide of David and Janice when my parents were missionaries in France in…
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The Last Battle
The Last Battle: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Good Quote: Possibly the greatest picture of Heaven outside of the Bible is given in the last chapter of this book. I won’t put all that here, but just the end of the end. Which is, I think, the best kids book ending ever…
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The Silver Chair
the good, the bad, and the ugly
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Sooooo….Basically, I’m Right: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Good: The subtitle for the book is, How I Didn’t Allow a Disease to Defeat My Spirit. That is SO the book. It’s full of terrific stories about bees, the Tooth Ninja, and even planting plants upside-down. Only someone who has lived with the continual pain of Lyme disease can simultaneously convey the feelings…
