GOOD NEWS:  The German doctors have finally, after two weeks of searching, found my biopsy slides, also known as McSlides.  I’m now able to send all my reports to the States to be reviewed there.  Making headway sure feels good…  Meanwhile, I’ll be heading to Prague at 4:00 tomorrow morning!  I’ll be traveling with 12 […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please click this link to see this blog entry as it ought to look…  https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) There is a saying in the Christian community that makes me angry, and hearing it again a few days ago has rekindled my dislike for it.  Whoever first coined the phrase was probably well-intentioned, but its implications […]

I stepped back into the choir classroom yesterday for the first time in three weeks and was struck again by the sound of 52 voices crammed into a small space.  Oh, it wasn’t transcendental harmonies and flawless diction that caught my attention.  It was noise—the kind of noise that hums with reunion talk and spikes […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please, please, please click here to read this entry as it should be: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) I have a new friend.  His name is Mac.  When I first heard that he was coming for a visit—no, had already come—I instinctively despised him.  There were three major reasons for my instant hatred: 1.  I felt […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please don’t.  Click here instead: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine)There’s a real post brewing.  It’s been brewing for a while, actually, and I have felt it keenly.  But it’s not quite ready to be put into words yet.  So while my internal percolator percolates, here are a few of the views that have inspired me and […]

(IF you’re seeing this on Facebook, click on the following link to see the pictures in their best artistic context: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine!  IF you’re reading on Xanga, you might want to check out the rest of the pics on Facebook…but only after you’ve see these here!    Complicated?  Yup…but no one ever said I was simple.) […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Click this link to see it as it OUGHT to be: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) “Hmmm,” I thought to myself, “what do I really want for Christmas this year?” “By Jove, I’ve got it!” THE GAUZE AND TAPE LOOK!!All the models in Paris are BIG into it (Calvin Klein calls it the “G&T Trend”) and, […]

(I PROMISE you these pictures look best when viewed on Xanga–so if you’re reading this on Facebook, just click on the following link: https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine) You wanted pictures?  I’ve got pictures!    The last couple of weeks have been EXHAUSTING…but in a good way!  The frantic level of activity, responsibility and deadlines have sent my world spinning, […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Click here https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine instead!) You’ve been complaining (ie. whining)…and I’ve decided to take it seriously this time!  So rather than engage in another wordy essay on the pitfalls of nihilism and the benefits of colon cleansing, I’ll treat you instead to a collection of pertinent pictures.  We’ll start with a budget-friendly remodel […]

(Reading on Facebook?  Please click on the following link to see this entry as it should be! https://www.xanga.com/serenitymine ) Excerpt from an upcoming prayer letter: GRATITUDE:  “A feeling of thankfulness and appreciation.” It seems like a simplistic definition for a word as overused as it is under-felt.  Gratitude is simply being thankful—like cheer is being […]