Jan 22, 2019 | travel & adventure
Okay, so we weren’t really supposed to be here. I mean–not really. Winter at 5000 feet can be brutal and that’s why we closed up the mountain place and kissed it goodbye, for a while, at Thanksgiving. But then January came, and an opening on the...
Oct 2, 2018 | travel & adventure
It has been that kind of summer. I have traveled somewhere in the neighborhood of 9,486 miles (I counted up) and that was just getting from city to city. It has been a time of grand excitement, heartbreak, pure exhaustion, and a whole lot of love. But now it is...
Jun 24, 2018 | travel & adventure
God had my attention. It was as if part of the message, itself, was Look here. I’d like to make this perfectly clear, and so He had it delivered by a handsome young preacher, a Princeton scholar who spoke with ease and an earnestness that was as...
May 22, 2018 | travel & adventure
I was moved to tears. I don’t say this lightly. I also don’t say it for dramatic effect. I say it because as I stood there looking east over the gentle, vast, peaceful fields of Gettysburg–the spot held July 1, 1863, by the Northern...
May 15, 2018 | travel & adventure
It is a fascinating thing to experience spring in South Carolina’s midlands, then to climb high into the mountains of western North Carolina where nature reveals herself in a completely different way. What I mean is here at Bickley’s Pond–where the...
Mar 17, 2018 | travel & adventure
It’s a funny thing to spend time in two locales and to experience a mix of seasons. We left South Carolina two weeks ago in full-on Spring: shorts and tshirts, blooming trees and flowers, birds all a’flutter with loving on their minds. We arrived in the...
