The problem with the motivation to make history is that it causes people to skirt their responsibility in favor of delusions of grander.
Earlier this week Glenn Beck made waves by urging Christians to leave any church that supports social justice. Promptly after he made these statements, prominent Christians all over the country reacted negatively and started to urge their followers to boycott Beck. While I understand the reaction, I’m wondering if it was the correct one. After [...]
On Wednesday we headed out to Yellowstone National Park. We went up to the west entrance from our place in Victor. Along the way we stopped at Mesa Falls, which is a beautiful set of waterfalls a little south and west of Yellowstone. There are a couple of walkways that lead you down to a [...]
On day two of our journey we traveled to Pingree, Idaho. Pingree is a small farming community – there are more cattle than people in the town. Wide open spaces abound, much of which are covered with potato plants. Yes, this is the part of Idaho where the world famous Idaho Russet Potato comes from [...]
It’s odd how vacations, which are supposed to be these terribly relaxing times, always start with a mad rush to get out of the house. From what I understand, once you have kids that rush never ends, but alas I don’t have kids yet. We left last night to go on our summer vacation and [...]