Sherry | February 14, 2010
As you know, if you read my last post, today is just another day for us, not Valentines Day. But since the rest of you celebrate VD today, I thought I’d give you some hearts and love thoughts from our own home to yours.
I don’t feel at home with a lot of clutter, but for [...]
Sherry | February 10, 2010
On February 10—not 14—we celebrate Valentine’s Day because it’s the day I asked you to marry me. Not in so many words, of course, since women aren’t supposed to propose. But it just slipped out; I hadn’t planned anything. We were just sitting there together on the couch in that tiny cabin by the ocean. [...]
Sherry | February 2, 2010
On Tuesdays we meet as a team (pastors and Denise and me) to check in, do a spiritual practice, pray, work through an agenda, and eat lunch together. I love team meeting so didn’t necessarily long for a change, but today’s field trip to Tilikum was especially nice because the sun added lovely warmth to [...]
Sherry | November 20, 2009
While I was in Michigan putting the finishing touches on my life as a Carlson and planning a wedding, Mauri was here in Newberg tearing a carport off of his house and overseeing the addition of a bedroom, office, and garage. In the demolition he set aside the old back door, recognizing its charm. After [...]
Sherry | October 6, 2009
We are out at the coast again for our annual pastoral team retreat. A cool element this year is for each of us ten to share some aspect of our life story. I spent my allotted 15 minutes talking about my parents. Mauri related stories of people who’ve played major roles in his life and [...]
Sherry | March 29, 2009
To get my mind off the fact that Oklahoma (last hope in my NCAA bracket) is losing to UNC, I’ll divert my attention to this unposed picture I took yesterday of the stack of recyclables headed out to the bin. It represents a big, and most likely permanent, change in our household.
Because of what appeared [...]
Sherry | January 17, 2009
I first met Craig MacDonald when he was my Sunday school teacher at Berean Bible Church in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Even though that was in the late ’80s, I think, I still carry with me his important teachings. Craig has many interests, and he writes about them every day, faithfully, on his blog. Earlier this [...]
Sherry | January 5, 2009
This little work of art has beautified our office reception area for more than five years now. I can’t say I notice it every time I walk past it, since that might be 15 or 20 times a day, but now and then it will catch my eye and I’ll pause to admire it and [...]
Sherry | January 3, 2009
He was remembering the good old days, not so very long ago, when he would have to drive down to the Barview store and point his car in just the right angle toward the ocean to get clear enough cell service to call me. It was either that or what he dubbed T-Mobile tide, when [...]
Sherry | January 2, 2009