(If you’re not reading this on the Xanga website [burgundy background, white lettering], please click here to be redirected! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) It’s official. Junior-Senior Banquet is behind us. As much of a celebration as it is, the event is also a bittersweet reminder of the finite number of days remaining in which to cherish this tenuous […]
In loving memory of my grandma, Margaret Parks. June 30, 1913 – April 29, 2009 She was a devoted wife and a loving mother to her two daughters, and it’s safe to assume that her greatest joy and her greatest sadness was watching themboth commit to a life of ministry in France. I didn’t know my […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be redirected! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) NOTE: All pictures taken during our first home game (soccer’s finally in season again!) and an afternoon of fun with Bear, Erin, Squirt and Autumn. BFA’s director, Mr. Shuman, asked me to speak at a meeting that took place this afternoon. The topic? “What BFA […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be redirected! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) NOTE: All pictures taken during our first home game (soccer’s finally in season again!) and an afternoon of fun with Bear, Erin, Squirt and Autumn. BFA’s director, Mr. Shuman, asked me to speak at a meeting that took place this afternoon. The topic? “What BFA […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be redirected: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) It was one of the sunniest days we’ve seen this spring, and the four of us who went off to Staufen for tea were misled by the sunshine, opting to leave our jackets in the car and subsequently freezing entire body parts into oblivion… But […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click here to be redirected: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) Ah, spring break in Germany! The sunshine… The chirping birds… The blooming flowers… The frolicking animals in grassy fields… The dancing, puffy clouds… The cotton skirts and dresses, shorts and a sandals, sunglasses and hats… Spring break isn’t exactly looking like it ought to today, […]
(If you’re reading on Facebook, please click here to be redirected! www.xanga.com/serenitymine) All photos from the ACSI Honor Choir and Strings weekend. They came from Vienna, Prague, Budapest and other cities across Europe and Asia, each of them carefully selected to participate in the musical adventure that is ACSI’s Honor Choir and Strings festival. And […]
(Reading on Facebook? Please click on this link to be redirected to the correct site: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) [Tagging seniors on this note, because you’re about to be newly minted college freshmen–see second half of note.] All photos from the school retreat in Nuremberg! I’m feeling my age, these days. Oh, it’s not brittle bones or arthritis. […]
(If you’re reading on Facebook, please click here to be redirected: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) I’ve been wracking my mind trying to figure out how best to communicate to you the depth and scope of the Candlelight Dinner, but after dismissing nifty ideas like forcing readers to peruse this entry while sitting in a sauna (roughly the experience […]
I just got back from an evening on the farm. My friend Tifah (her real name is Natania) was in town for just a couple of days with her new baby boy and I couldn’t wait to meet him—and by “town,” by the way, I mean “tiny village tucked away in the remote recesses of […]