Surviving the Crazy Twins

My struggle with the crazy twins that haunt me: Bipolar Disorder and Alzheimer’s Disease.
It’s All About Family: Part II

It’s All About Family: Part II

When it finally quit going wrong Just good folks.  That’s how I’d describe the 150 or so people, overwhelmingly Canadian, who attended our Reist/Archer family reunion near the little farming communities of Didsbury and Olds north of Calgary. Sure, there...
Gonna’ take a sentimental journey

Gonna’ take a sentimental journey

A sentimental journey home! Cruise the blogosphere for for any length of time and, count on it, you’ll come across a bunch of sites devoted to travel. Love Travelling.  Dan Flying Solo.  A Broken Backpack.  The Path Less Pedaled.  Nowhere.  The list goes on and...
On the water front

On the water front

The Lord still inhabits the praises of his people Last winter my sister, Linda, and her husband came to Colorado for a visit.  Don’t ask me how, but they managed to wedge it in amongst all their other globe girdling trips.  As I’ve said of them before,...

Romancing The Stone . . . er, The Tom

Getting under the hood My son, Byron, and I went turkey hunting a few weeks ago in central Nebraska a couple of miles west of the little town of Wolback (population 257). It was a guided trip with Gobble and Grunt Outfitters.  While by no means cheap, for city...
Project Sanctuary Redux

Project Sanctuary Redux

What is impossible for man is possible for GodWell, here I am again.  At a Project Sanctuary retreat, the only organization designed to serve the entire military family, helping them reconnect after a member returns from one of our perpetual wars.  Except it’s...