Sherry | June 27, 2007
Several weeks ago at team meeting it was my boss’s turn to choose the check-in question: If we had $500 and were required to spend it on ourselves only, what would we buy? Easy! I’d buy one of those really cool Zoomboxes by Hasbro (Pete and Linsey have one) that shows movies on the wall [...]
Sherry | June 20, 2007
Last Saturday I found a copy of The Glass Castle at a garage sale for 25 cents, so I bought it even though Amazon had already shipped our two new copies. They arrived yesterday, just as I was finishing the final pages. Such is life. The book reminded me a lot of Angela’s Ashes. It’s [...]
Sherry | June 18, 2007
Somewhere along Mauri’s fathering years, his kids started calling him Pop. It stuck. So while other dads celebrated Fathers Day yesterday, tonight we celebrated Pops Day. The two local sons and their wives wanted to do a meal at one of their homes, but their pop talked them into coming over to our house because [...]
Sherry | June 17, 2007
Since Mauri is not prone toward self-promotion, I’m the one left to report that his single-seater recumbent bike odometer turned over to 7,000 miles on his last ride. Of course his lifetime mileage would soar into numbers way higher, probably six figures, since he’s been an avid bike rider for many years. Having lived in [...]
Sherry | June 11, 2007
Last night Mauri and I became part of a start-up reading group. As we gathered around our hosts’ ample-sized table for a salad-and-homemade-bread supper, each of the eight of us took one to four minutes to share our “bibliobiography.” Already intimidated by the abundant intelligence spread across the other seven in the group, I was [...]
Sherry | June 6, 2007
Here’s an update in pictures of our weekend. Mauri and I flew to Denver on Thursday. My joyful assignment was to look after Cass while her parents attended a CHCC marriage retreat up at Snow Mountain Ranch in the Rockies. Mauri went with them to lead worship at the retreat. Here’s the little princess, dressed [...]