Several comments about the exciting contest:
Many of you have WAY too much time on your hands.
If someone is having a baby and I yell `Name it Steve or Stephanie’ that is CHARMING. If you suggested the name Steve or Stephanie to name a COW, it is a sign of IMMATURITY and RUDENESS.
Those of you that decided to use this contest as an opportunity to insult me severely hurt your chances of winning.
We had more response to this email than when...
Our date was great. It’s remarkable how being away for a day can refresh your perspective. It was also the first time I had driven to Nairobi since we had returned to Kenya, and it’s not like driving in Dallas. I dodged mule carts, sheep, matatus driven by escapees from the Asylum for the Criminal Insane, and pot holes that are so deep and so wide you can’t do anything but bid farewell to certain...
Continue ReadingMy last email has been misinterpreted by so many people that I felt an obligation to offer an apology. It was entitled `Sacrificing myself for others: Nobility in Action’. I began the email with my attempt to swipe some pie from a luncheon that Nancy was giving for some ladies, where I emailed them and told them that it was no good so not to eat it; I would eat it later and in effect, sacrifice myself for them.
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Grammar is the most boring subject in the world to teach, and certainly to learn. But my daughter has given me great inspiration. She is the most beautiful girl in the universe, but before she does the deed she grunts in a manner that people miles away are aware of what she is doing.
So, when we are doing drills in class to identify irregular verbs, what do I make self-conscious eight grade students do? You’ve got it; they have to...
Adopting the twins has been such a blessing. It has also been a very revealing time for me.So many people have said to us or written to us, “What a wonderful thing you are doing. Those babies are so blessed to have you as parents.” But as is so often true of God, the total opposite is what is really true. What a wonderful thing God is doing for our family through these twins. We are so blessed to have...
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