• Crescent Island

    While we were in Kenya to take Jonah to RVA– we had a free day while he was in school -before we headed back home.  We decided to use our day by driving down…

  • Great Rift

    So this post has actually been a long time coming – mostly because it’s been something so significant that we’ve really needed some time to process. At the beginning of this school year…

  • incredible failure

    I ran Le Grand Duc one time before when we lived there – in a relay of 5 with guys from our church. It was an amazing experience – my first real trail…

  • For Remembrance Day.

    This is a re-post of something I wrote several years ago after visiting Normandy just before the 70 anniversary of D-Day. It’s gotten more reactions than any post I’ve written, and I feel…

  • Nairobi

    Despite the fact that we all had very mixed emotions over the reason why we were in Kenya, there was no disagreement over the good times had in Nairobi. Despite being a giant…