I found these old road signs in several places in and around Louisiana’s Chicot State Park. I had never seen one before. At first… I kinda laughed when I saw them. It’s a rather ambiguous warning. What exactly does “substandard roadway” mean? Are the foundations about to crumble at any moment? Did they pave it [...]
I’ve been on a technological roller coaster over the last few months. It started when some of the technology I relied on for day-to-day life — my laptop and my cell phone — both failed within days of each other. That experience was both frustrating and eye-opening. I never realized how much I used my [...]
I just got back from another roadtrip. I love taking long drives, especially when I get to be in the mountains or explore areas that I haven’t visited before. Those road trips put a lot of miles on my car… which means more frequent oil changes during those times of the year when I travel [...]
It’s difficult for a church to see itself through the eyes of a total outsider, someone who shows up for the first time and doesn’t have any friends or family in that church to help them navigate through the facilities, culture, lingo, and expectations… so I’ve compiled a little list of observations based on multiple [...]
More than two months after a massive Tornado swept through Joplin, I had the opportunity to travel there as part of a relief trip the last week of July. The devastation was unbelievable. As outsiders, we couldn’t help but look around and marvel at the extent of the damage and the work that still remained [...]
One of my most vivid early memories is from the 1970s when my dad took me to see the World Trade Center “up close” for the very first time. I was probably only 3 years old. Downtown New York City was so big, so busy, and so strange–fascinating and frightening at the same time–but my [...]
