IT’S A UKRAINE TIME OF YEAR!
I leave tonight from Grand Rapids, MI and shuttle-jump to Detroit. I will fly through the night to Amsterdam and arrive in Kiev, Ukraine tomorrow at 4:45 p.m. (Ukraine time). I fly Northwest/KLM.
Maksim and Lena Rakovich will meet me at Borispol airport and I will spend the night with them. On Friday, [...]
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A BRIEF TALE OF TWO BISHOPS: ONE ANGLO– BISHOP N.T. WRIGHT OF ENGLAND and ONE AFRICAN– BISHOP JOHN RUCYAHANA of RAWANDA.
Julie and I spent last week in San Diego visiting two of our daughters. Elisha, our second daughter, lives in Lakeside and is married to Bryan and has 3 children: Ben, Zachary and Lillian. Shamar, our fourth [...]
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Posted in Places on Feb 16th, 2008
Grand Haven Light House
Julie and I, and her mother, Lois, went to Grand Haven to see the terrible beauty of Lake Michigan in winter. Instead of sand dunes we saw snow dunes–rolling mounds of ice and snow framing the edge of the big lake. We also enjoyed one of the best hamburgers in West [...]
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Posted in Places on Jan 20th, 2008
We went into Ft Worth and watched the “cattle drive” in the old stockyard area of the city. The longhorns were a sight to see being herded by cowboys on horseback. After wandering around in the shops, we went to Risky’s restaurant and had ourselves a Texas-size dinner–I had a 12 oz strip grilled to [...]
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Yahoo! We are flying down to the Dallas-Ft Worth airport and driving out to Haslet, TX (not far) to spend today through next Monday morning with our oldest daughter, Leah, and her family: Andy (hubby), Jackson (6), Trevor (4) and Sylvia (1.5).
Lois, Julie’s mother, is flying with us. Lois has two sisters, JoAnn and [...]
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Last night the Baker Book House store on East Paris at 28th St. in Grand Rapids, MI hosted a book-signing. I was invited by Louis McBride to have time to speak about why I wrote Out of Print: A Novel and what I hope the book accomplishes. I read an excerpt and then had a [...]
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