Today is my brother Jeff’s birthday.   Today he is the big 3-0.  (Three-oh)  Welcome to the club, Jeff!  Now I’m not the only one (of us siblings).  How does it feel to be 30?  Do you still feel it is the new 20?  Or do you feel older, say in your bones?  Slowing down any?  [...]

I’ve been thinking about this lately.  This is something I’ve thought about off and on for a long time (thinking about stuff is one of my hobbies).  And recently Betsy’s post about patriotism has provided fodder for this thought topic as has some religious observations I’ve made since coming here and musings about the devotional [...]

That’s the name of a music CD I’ve been listening to.  I picked it up on one of our trips to Disney World last year.  The subtitle (or at least text at the bottom of the CD case) is “Unique Musical Creations Based on Disney Songs.” I really like this CD.  No, that is not [...]

Friday night at church the conversation turned to glasses and I mentioned I needed to visit an optician (where you buy glasses).  The pastor, Majdi, who is a doctor, volunteered to take me to the shop he deals with.  I accepted.  So the next day, Saturday, he and his wife, Margo, and his son Mark [...]

Jeremy is hard at work on his ship studying and completing PQSs for ESWS qualification.  What that means is he has a spiral book called Personnel Qualification Standard which has in it a bunch of topics on what he’s trying to qualify for and a bunch of signature lines for someone to sign once he’s demonstrated [...]

Today is Jeremy’s and my anniversary.  Happy anniversary to us!  We got married in 2006, so we have been married for two years now.  And we have lived together for all of 5 months out of those 24.  Woohoo!  Awesome, huh?  Did you know that’s almost 21%?  (For those of you who like math and [...]

The President of the United States of America visited the Kingdom of Bahrain!  Isn’t that way cool?  And I never even got to see him either.  That’s way NOT cool. I’ve known about it for days, but I’ve delayes saying anything until it was over.  Yes, it’s public knowledge and has been in the papers [...]

I was really surprised Tuesday when my phone rang during training.  I didn’t recognize the number so I thought I’d better answer it.  Guess what?  It was Jeremy.  I said, “Where are you?” thinking he must not be on his ship since he was calling my cell phone.  He said, “I’m on the pier.” So [...]

My Jeremy is the sweetest guy in the world. Yesterday I received a box and inside was a present from him. It was an e-book reader, a device about the size of a paperback book, but thinner, that allows you to download books (e-books) onto it and read them. According to the box, depending on [...]

It rained tonight!  Actual, honest-to-goodness water coming down from the sky! I’ve been here since the end of June and this is the first time it has rained (that I know of). It started as people were leaving church.  The kids were so excited.  They acted just like small children back home do when it [...]