I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the underlying messages in our communication. For example, I can say something to my wife that sounds totally supportive, right and loving, but the message is “You need to change A and B for me to accept you” – which is neither loving nor supportive. The same principle [...]

We spent Christmas with my family in Arkansas. It was a really fun time, although family time is always tinged with a “make the most of every moment” kind of sadness these days. We spent a lot of time reading, drinking coffee, playing games like Cranium and Clubs. We saw I Am Legend, which we [...]

We finally figured out the perfect metaphor for trying to move overseas. It’s like playing Sudoku. You know, where you have to figure out where the numbers 1-9 go on the board and a number can’t be repeated vertically, horizontally, or in the same cell. Ange and I used play Sudoku at the laundromat, before [...]

For everyone in the Indianapolis/Muncie area, we’re going to have a moving sale on Saturday, December 15. Here’s a sample:

This is really wild. We’re finally starting to go through our stuff and decide what we’re going to throw out, store, and ship. It’s easy to talk about not being attached to things until you have to put “things” in one of those three categories. Our once-inviting, warm, friendly home is quickly becoming unfriendly: