Musings at Altitude

In a very different spin on “permission slips”, our church supports an evangelical Pastor in Northern India.  Over the last several months, our missions coordinator worked closely with this Pastor and his wife to schedule a visit here to the States where he could fellowship in person with those churches that support him.  In the recent […]

I went with my 14 year old on her field trip today.  We arrived at the school about 8:45 for a 9:00 show time and there was no one in that part of the parking lot.  About 5 minutes later, her teacher showed up, and I asked if we were in the right place since no one […]

My 14 year old came up to me yesterday and asked me to sign a permission slip.  She wanted to take a field trip with her friends and classmates on Saturday.  I typically just sign those things when asked and don’t probe too much, but since I’m the sole parent at home this week, I […]

This just came in: It sure would be cool if all of us could see everything placed in front of us and around us as toys! Our granddaughter gets great pleasure from this toy, but she also gets great pleasure from keys, from sugar packets, from slips of paper, from hair, from glasses, etc. Everything […]

My 14 year old has an appointment with the orthodontist tomorrow.  She has braces on the top teeth, and she’ll soon have braces on the bottom teeth as well.  Since my wife is out of town (still visiting the granddaughter), I get to haul my daughter to her appointments.  So tomorrow it’s the orthodontist. As I […]

I woke up at 12:50 this morning with the bed shaking and in a semi-conscious state thought that it must be getting windy and went right back to sleep.  I woke up again at 1:32, with a rumbling throughout the house and the concussion sounds of explosions going off.  If my wife had been home […]

It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and I’m sitting in our home theater watching the Super Bowl with my 14 year old sitting next to me on the couch.  Both of us are on our laptops.  I’m obviously blogging, and she’s probably not so obviously on the Avalanche ticket web site trying to see what seats are still […]

At the last moment, I cancelled my upcoming trip to our headquarters in Alaska.  I had two good excuses – (1) a volcano is soon to blow near Anchorage and I didn’t want to be stranded if that did indeed happen; and (2) the cost of the trip was going to be about $2,800 and […]