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  • SUNDAY MORNINGS, Picture by Theresa Kocha

    What do you do on Sunday morning? Continue reading

    SUNDAY MORNINGS, Picture by Theresa Kocha
  • History’s Little Mysteries

    One of the things I love about studying history is the sense of how interpretations are overlapped by time. So often what we think is “truth” is opinion, even when we are looking at “facts”. In my Jewell Johnson Mysteries… Continue reading

    History’s Little Mysteries
  • Büyük Menderes and Why I Call My Blog Andi’s Meanderings

    Büyük Menderes means Meander(Μαίανδρος) which is the longest river in western Turkey, well known -already in Antiquity- for its fluvial deposits. So, what is a fluvial deposit and why would I name my blog after a long river on the… Continue reading

  • Financial Peace

    I was just wandering around at the internet and thinking about finances…mine are just a  tad strained. I have a book called “How to Gain Control of Your Finances” by  Stan Toler and it made me stop and think very… Continue reading

  • Is Your Umbrella Insideout?

      Do You Feel Winter In Your Soul? Can you hear the wind blowing through the cracks around the door and see the clouds outside the window scudding across the sky? Winter is coming, that’s for sure. Sometimes I kind… Continue reading

  • Tangled Trees

    Sometimes our lives begin to look like the woods after a storm…the trees are bent over and broken like toothpicks. It is hard to move around in this tangled mess. I remember hunting in the Big Slash near Seeley, WI. … Continue reading

  • Velvet Elvis: Are you rich in Christ?

    How rich are you? Is money everything? Isn’t it easy to say that Christians are rich in the Holy Spirit and money doesn’t mean anything to us? Flows right off your lips doesn’t it? Last week one of my friends asked… Continue reading

  • The Blessing of Loss, Sermon September 2010

    This is a sermon I gave last year, abbreviated a little for space. We were still recovering emotionally from Ara’s accident and I was feeling very reflective about losses and how they affect your life. I have been reading JoAnn Lyon’s… Continue reading

  • Dreams About Chocolate

    I am happy to say that I made it through the week without incident. My goal was to maintain my dignity and Christian values each day. I was able to explain without rancor that my job position was terminated. Angry… Continue reading

  • Another Day, no more dollars.

    I tossed and turned the first night after I was told my job was done at the Hardware Store. I was more excited than hurt or angry.  After I looked over my budget and tightened up a few bootstraps, I… Continue reading