Life Outside The Box

When I found the “Catsup” pictures I also found this. As soon as I saw this picture a story immediately formed in my mind. Here’s the Readers Digest version. A seven year old boy has been tormented for most of his young life by his three older brothers. On a family [...]

There has been an ongoing discussion in our family for many years regarding the viability of the word “Catsup”. How did this start you ask. Ever since I have known Susan she has referred to what are basically smashed and pureed tomatoes as “Catsup”. Fine, great, okay, but any container of “Catsup” [...]

A few years ago the WWJD bracelets were very popular.  They were used as a reminder that when you faced a situation in your life you would look at your WWJD bracelet and think, “What would Jesus do?”.  You would then do, or maybe not do, what Jesus would do.  Lately, we have expanded on [...]

The nest is finally empty! The last bird has left the coop so to speak. It’s at times like these that you look back and say to yourselves “Where did all those years go?” You laugh a little, cry a little, ride the emotional roller coaster for a while, get off and [...]

While in Minnesota last week after my son Trent’s wedding we had time for a little R&R.  One of the most relaxing things for me is to sit down with a good history book.  I have always loved history.  Whenever a new school year started I would spend the evening of my first day of [...]