a week of perfect days
Again, no posts this past week because we were having too much fun. It was a week of perfect sunshine in the morning: in fact, Monday I was planning to … Continue reading
amazing sunrise
Niki had me get up with the kids this morning at 10 till 7 (late for a normal day, but early on vacation!) and I got to see the sun … Continue reading
where has the time gone?
I guess I’ve been having so much fun that I haven’t had a chance to catch up this blog in a few days: since last Tuesday it looks like (Mexican … Continue reading
catching up
It’s now been three weeks since I’ve been on sabbatical, and several days since I last posted. When we left Apalachicola, I remember that I was interested in doing another … Continue reading
unbelievable
Perfect glassy water on the Gulf: not a wave in sight. There was a prediction of rain, but we got to the park at 10am and spent three hours+ at … Continue reading
golf cart fun
I think today was the most fun yet! Wednesday the water was even glassier than it was Tuesday. We didn’t get to the beach until about 11am because we stopped … Continue reading
paradise
The past two days, yellow flag days, the water has been like glass. Tuesday morning we spent about 2 and 1/2 hours at the beach. I was going to call … Continue reading
yellow flag
Today – eight days in – we saw the first yellow flag of our trip, meaning that every time that we had been to the beach before that it had … Continue reading
smells and bells
We went to Episcopal church this morning at mom’s church, Trinity in Apalachicola, although mom wasn’t there, of course. Instead, there was a guest, Whitney Zimmerman Edwards, who was a … Continue reading
a professional desire
My graduate work in “New Testament Ethics” at Yale focused on the question of how to extrapolate contemporary ethics from authoritative guidelines in New Testament, or how to live from … Continue reading
the land of canaan 