I’ve felt this way for years, but this week has really reenforced it: family does not need DNA. Let me explain. We are still traveling and in the past 3 days we’ve been with three different parts of our family. We spent a few days in Utah with our youngest daughter and her family. It…

You can file this under best laid plans of mice and men… On our trip across this beautiful land yesterday we encountered some snags. Go figure! We had taken a side trip to visit “Carhenge” (read more about it here) which was awesome. We then proceeded to drive through the Nebraska and Wyoming night toward…

Back in the 80’s there was a schmaltzy love song called Islands in the Stream. It was a duet by Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton. At the time of it’s release I was an avowed Ozzy Osbourne fan, so these two country icons were not going to be in my playlist. Today I am more…

No, I’m not going to go political here, it’s something different than that. I’m about to get to work on a project for my father in law. He has a log home in the country outside of Nashville. After they build a log home, you need to wash, then bleach the logs (and the boards…

Sometimes it’s nice to lay in bed while I let the night wash away from my memory and let the morning soak in. I stretch. I roll over several times. I yawn. I blink. I’m guessing you’ve been there too. The stay at home orders that we are under have made this one of my…

Far be it from your MoM to pass up a branding opportunity like Easter. I mean, come on, I end each week with “Rise Up” and yesterday was the day that we celebrate the fact the Jesus did just that. So how do we keep that in mind with the way that the virus has…

With all the talk of staying home over the past few weeks, this week saw a different kind of home for your MoM. The reason we came out to Tennessee finally arrived, and my mother-in-law was finally called Home by God. Her health has taken several steps backward over the past months and it has…

With so many people sheltering in place right now it can be difficult to maintain normal routines. At this point we have more kids being home schooled than at any time in our history. Deliveries happen at a tremendous rate. It turns out that when an entire nation presses “Pause” it has a major impact…

Well, it’s no secret by now that we are all facing something that none of us have ever faced. As a fan of zombie movies and shows there’s always that part of the back story where I ask “Why didn’t the people recognized this sooner?” Now I have my answer! (Note, I do not believe…