Things that make you go "Huh?"

For some reason the IRS has been requesting information about our itemized deductions. We got the first letter in early November, and Dave sent them copies of all our receipts. Today we got a notice that they were disallowing our deductions and billing us $LARGE for...

Google Maps

Here’s a link to the google map closest to the Villages of Hope Zambia. I was hoping to embed the map but it doesn’t want to work.

Christmas day 2011

I was going to attach some pictures of the Reynolds Homestead in Christmas Day, nut this wordPress app is not cooperating. I will have to do this from a computer.

Learning new stuff

Learning new stuff is one of my favorite things to do. I like it especially when what I learn makes something I already know about better, or make more sense, or connect to something else I hadn’t considered. I’ve been writing songs off and on for the last...

Forgetting about Normal

The last four or five years has been full of upheaval. Even before our house fire, when my parents moved out of our childhood home, there was a lot of stress and change. I have spent the last few years thinking “In just a few months our lives will be back to...
If a picture is worth a thousand words…

If a picture is worth a thousand words…

  …then it’s time to post one. This is Herb and Mom in the restaurant, the night before he had his surgery in 2009.   Tonight I finished transferring Herb’s Facebook posts to the WordPress site. I don’t have anything comparable for...