Liz and I attended our kids’ Homeschool Basketball League games last night in Harrod, Ohio. Both Sarah and Joseph’s games were quite spirited. Afterward one of the other parents approached me and wanted to talk politics out in the hall. He said … Continue reading →
I talked with Matt Arnold today. He and his family were missionaries in Chihua Chihua, Mexico, for 17 years. They worked with indigenous people in the rural areas there. He said it’s not “African poverty,” but the poverty there is … Continue reading →
For Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I watched the movie The Great Debaters with our children. It’s about the debate team at Texas’s Wily College in the 1930s in a segregated South. Based on a true story, this Black debate … Continue reading →
We drove to Cleveland this week from Northwest, Ohio. On the way in, I put up campaign literature on bulletin boards in Fairview Park, Ohio, and Vermilion, Ohio. (Our answer to the big money campaigns.) I was traveling with the … Continue reading →
Catching up on the last couple weeks: For Christmas, our family’s gift to Jesus was a donation to a Third World clean water fund. Some one billion people worldwide don’t have access to clean water… For New Years, I made … Continue reading →
Our motor home got hit last week. It was parked on a quiet side street and an 82-year-old woman, in broad daylight (at a slow speed), swerved and hit the back corner. The next day (Are you ready for this?), … Continue reading →
We spent the weekend moving into our new home on Main Street in Bluffton, Ohio (pop. 3,875). That’s right, “Average Joe on Main Street USA.” Doesn’t get much more populist than that! And we don’t even plan these things, the … Continue reading →
While the other candidates are holding town hall meetings, and the like, in Iowa and New Hampshire, I’ve decided on Northwest Ohio. (Call it a hunch) Last night I found myself in an impromptu round table discussion at McDonald’s with … Continue reading →
I talked with Kurt Schoenfeld yesterday. He travels the Midwest giving training seminars for firefighters on tools (like “Jaws of Life,” etc.) used in extracting people from vehicles in the aftermath of a bad wreck for Howell Rescue Systems. Coming … Continue reading →
I talked with Bluffton University professor Don Hooley. Back from a sabbatical to India, he said it wasn’t uncommon to see a family of four there living in one 15 ft. by 15 ft. room, complete with a small kitchen, … Continue reading →