Happy New Year! I snapped this incredible scene beside the Mississippi River south of La Crosse, Wisconsin during our 1500-mile journey in 2011. I wanted to display the great view of the road over the front wheel of my handcycle, but when I looked at the photo I noticed the presence of the rear view […]
Continue readingThe Last Minute?
Politicians and middle school kids apparently have something in common—they procrastinate difficult work, rush to throw something together at the last minute, and blame others when it’s not finished on time. I’m waiting to hear “the dog ate the fiscal cliff bill.” I read somewhere that today’s the biggest single day of the year for […]
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It’s New Year’s Eve, and I have a simple word-of-the-week… CLICK If we believe the pundits, the Mayan calendar was wrong. The REAL end of the world comes when we plunge over the so-called fiscal cliff. Call me cynical, but I don’t think that’ll happen. The irresponsible politicians who invented this latest crisis will find […]
Continue readingWhy Doesn’t The Bike Move?
Rich and Becky do some things that just don’t make sense. Most of the time I just go along. I figure I’m just a dog and they’re smarter than I am. But Rich does this one really dumb thing every winter. Now Becky’s doing it, too, and even a dog can see it makes no […]
Continue readingDoes This Make Sense?
Note: I’m taking a little break this week, so my favorite guest blogger is filling in both here and over at RICH’S RIDE. # # # Rich and Becky do some things that just don’t make sense. Most of the time I just go along. I figure I’m just a dog and they’re smarter than […]
Continue readingRich’s Semi-Regular Newsletter–End of 2012 Edition
Happy New Year! Some thoughts about jumping into 2013 in the last 2012 edition of Rich’s Semi-Regular Newsletter.
Continue readingA Time To Stop
For a couple of days, it’s time to stop. For a couple of days, no talk of rides and books and Florida. For a couple of days we let that stuff go and remember why we’re doing this. More than two thousand years ago a little baby was born. His birth changed history and brought […]
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Happy Monday! It’s Christmas Eve, the perfect time for this word-of-the-week… MESSY In our house we have a couple of nativity scenes. One’s white-and-gold porcelain, the other’s beautifully carved from walnut by a friend. They’re neat and pretty, and they don’t smell. The first Christmas was a mess. People traveled to their ancestral home of […]
Continue readingHoliday Or Holy Day?
I just realized I haven’t written much about Christmas…makes me wonder what’s going on. A few days ago I googled “Christmas” just to see what would appear. After the obligatory Wikipedia entry, nearly the entire first page of search results dealt with stuff for sale. I started shaking my head in self-righteous judgment of those […]
Continue readingA Small Bit Of Amazing Grace
But Jesus called the children to him and said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these. Truly I tell you, anyone who will not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.” Luke 18:16-17 I’m […]
Continue readingCan Service Be Fun?
A dream is the God-inspired desire to share your unique gifts and passions to serve others and change the world. I don’t think I realized it was possible to work so hard and have so much fun. That was my thought as we finished up this weekend. Becky and I were really busy signing and […]
Continue readingDo You See What’s Happening?
Jon Swanson wrote a really generous piece last week about the new book. Except it wasn’t really about the book at all. I first “met” Jon, 300 words at a time, through his blog. I commented a few times, then wrote a couple of guest articles. During the Mississippi River trip, we finally met face–to-face […]
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