Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

//There’s a menacing building just behind our house; it’s kind of the neighborhood ‘no-go-zone’ because of all the scary things in there. You see, this building is my garage. I pretended to clean it last year, and was able to park my car in it for the better part of a week. I didn’t [...]

//In the brisk evening of December 16, 1773, a number of yahoos fueled with rage toward the government-sanctioned corporate control over their lives by the East India Company, and perhaps fueled in no small part by Sam Adams, dumped that company’s cargo of tea into the Boston Harbor.
King George was heavily invested in the East [...]

//My marketing plan for my book is to speak to as many groups and individuals as possible about our family’s journey. My wife and I have been busy scheduling as many groups as we can to present our story to. Last week, we scheduled upcoming talks at seven different Rotary International Chapters in Michigan.
This [...]

//The following is an excerpt from the afterword in Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home.
In four years and a half of traveling the globe, we found no strangers. We found people everywhere engaged in life, in love, in vocation, and in worship.
Curiosities abounded, but rather than focus on the curiosities of [...]

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I, for one, am growing tired of listening to the endless yammering on by those engaged in the shrimp and oyster fisheries along the Gulf Coast. It’s like, “oh, poor us, we stand likely to lose our livelihoods because of this crude substance heading our way.” For crying out loud, get over it! BP stands [...]