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Devastation in the Desert

We sure do love rain around here. Rain. Glorious rain. Not hail! I woke up to a devastated garden. It literally looks like someone took a baseball bat to the garden. Click to view slideshow. Zucchini...

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Break Time

The boys and I have been feeling it. We’ve been ready for some time-off of school. I know I am ready for a b-r-e-a-k. Gavin already shared some dreaded news. He said that he was “bored” and claimed...

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The Year of My Discontent

I’m no John Steinbeck. Our family has in the States for a year now. Sometimes that year feels immeasurably long, while other times I cannot comprehend how this length of time averted me. This has been...

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The Talk

The Beginning of the End I just had “The Talk” with the boys. Gavin didn’t take it well. Are you picky when it comes to milk? In my house we smell it, examine it, taste it and are still often leary...

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Preservation

It’s that time of year . . . to head on over to Apple Annies. Apple Annie’s is a pick-your-own farm. They have an orchard and a separate site for vegetables. We went last year, for the first time, with...

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Soap Box: Education

Is public schooling better than homeschooling? Who knows? The answer to that second question is obvious: No one seems to know. For some reason, this often turns into a heated debate. We affix some...

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Ginger’s Big Day

Almost 19 years ago today, I met my beautiful wife, Ginger. It was 1998, I was still in the Army and had just got stationed at Ft. Huachuca, AZ. A good friend of mine happened to know Ginger and,...

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Hard Choices

I hate making important decisions. I don’t even like deciding what I’m going to make for dinner or which t-shirt I’m going to wear today. It’s not that I want to make everyone happy, it’s that I’m...

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First trip to Menies Beach

I’d first read about Menies Beach when we were here before, but reading that it was at the end of a fairly long bumpy, rocky, dirt road, I didn’t want to take either of our cars there. Now that we’re...

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Marmara Beach

A couple weeks ago, we joined some friends on a trip to Marmara Beach on the Southwest coast of Crete. After an hour and a half car ride through the beautiful Lefka Ori (White Mountains), we arrived in...

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