After I went to San Francisco for church and commented on how long it takes to get there, my father wrote to me about a church in Palo Alto he suggested I try. The church is Peninsula Bible Church, and he said a former pastor of the church (now deceased) had written a book about what the church was doing that the church I spent my teen years in Continue reading
This morning I visited Legacy Community Church in Los Gatos. I was late getting there because I didn’t realize that Saratoga Village was going to be blocked off for a celebration today and those who wanted to go through had to take a detour, but I got there while there was still music being sung. Continue reading
I’m behind on writing. I haven’t been home much in the last couple days except to sleep and work. Continue reading
There’s a place in Saratoga Village called Shivaga and we see their sign for Thai massage every time we’re down there. Every time Mark has seen it, he has longingly said he’d like to get a massage. He used to get a massage once a month a long time ago, and he has back pain from the military that flares up every now and then, so he’s Continue reading
In 2007 when I was living and volunteering in Mexico, my boss took me to see “The Pursuit of Happyness” with Will Smith. The story was taken from the real life story of Chris Gardner, a man down on his luck and living on the streets of San Francisco with his young son while he trained to be a stock broker. Later that year, when I was Continue reading
Mark had to get up extra early for work this morning, so I got up with him. At the last minute I decided to change the order of the churches I still want to visit, and it’s a good thing I did. This morning I drove nearly 50 miles to attend a Mennonite church in San Francisco. As it turns out, if I’d waited till next week, I would have gotten to that address and they wouldn’t have been there! They’re meeting in a park next week. Continue reading
I want to give a shout out to my younger sister, Lauryn, and my 14-year-old nephew, Nate, who just returned home today from a mission trip to Kenya. I hope to get one of them to write a guest blog about their trip. Continue reading
This morning I had decided not to even try to take a GPS with me. I had carefully written down the instructions off Mapquest for how to get to Santa Cruz Friends Meeting. Fortunately I left home over an hour … Continue reading
“There is creative reading as well as creative writing.”Ralph Waldo Emerson“If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time(or the tools) to write.” Stephen King
If you are inclined to write for 6th-8th graders, you’ll want to read some of the best of what’s out there now. Here are my top 12 picks: