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Before The Flood

Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009

So, yeah, I’m sure by now you’ve seen the news and seen all of the flooding in the Atlanta area. There was a whole lot of it here in the Austell/Dallas/Powder Springs area. Fortunately, we avoided much of the worst of it and our house is still safe and dry. We are very blessed. The [...]

First game of the year

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

There’s really no way to sugarcoat this past week. It was easily the most horrible week I’ve had in a long time. Grace got sick early in the week. Then Erin got sick in the middle of the week. Finally, I got sick late in the week. Of course, work did not wait for either [...]

How To Have Fun When Your Team Is Losing By 35

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

The week had set up so well. We had just returned from visiting Adriene’s parents in Savannah and had a great Christmas with them. When we got home, I renewed one of my favorite post-Christmas traditions, the Atlanta Playstation Smackdown. I joined some of my Cornerstone friends to play Rock Band late into the night [...]

The Perfect Quarter

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

For the first time in a long while, Charlie Brown actually kicked the ball. That’s what the Georgia – Georgia Tech rivalry has felt like for the last seven years. No matter the convincing, the confidence, the hoping, Lucy would always pull the away, every year. Tech would lose in embarrassingly ugly ways (51-7 in [...]

My Birthday Gift, A Fumble In The Endzone

Sunday, November 2nd, 2008

I’m not really one to make a big deal about my birthday. I don’t know, it wasn’t ever a big event when I was a child. We had parties and all, but by the time I was a teenager, it was usually just dinner and some presents. Not that I’m complaining, I’ve always liked it [...]