(If you’re not seeing a dark red background, please click here! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) MORE PHOTOS OF SPRING PARTY AND EUROPA PARK AT END OF POST! …and even more on Facebook! It was 98 degrees in an overcrowded amusement park, and I’d had the bad idea of tagging along for the seven-hour day. Now, under the best […]
(Facebook readers, if you’re not seeing a red background, click here: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) SKIP TO THE END OF THIS POST FOR PICS OF MY KITCHEN REMODEL!!!! (The initial part of this post might seem a bit long, but if you’re a senior, someone who loves a senior or a bystander who wants to understand the unique […]
(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. […]