Sailing Faith: The Long Way Home

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.
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This becomes a recurring theme: places are special because of the people there. We’re meeting many people in different places, but are yet to find one of the places where they don’t value human life like we do.

Public space, dwindling as it is and socialist by definition is a true asset of America.

Another American curiosity was brought to our attention from people in every place we visited where it became a topic of discussion. “The Constitution of the United States of America is the greatest document ever written,”

A good friend of mine, fearing I’d slipped a bit too far from my conservative West Michigan roots during the course of our time in other countries, emailed me a link to a transcript from yesterday’s Rush Limbaugh gospel service. Rush addressed a quote by John Adams: “We have no government armed with the power [...]

Memories of Indonesia:
As Americans, we live in invisible test tubes of about an arm’s length called our space and we feel uncomfortable when someone violates it. In Indonesia, and in all of the non-western cultures that we visit, personal space does not exist, and we learn not to miss such space.
We use, wherever possible, local [...]

We all know that the minute a new car leaves the lot with a new owner, the amount of money that car trades for takes a noticeable hit. It is the same piece of machinery it was only moments before, nothing has changed in the value of that car, in the physical components that cause [...]

“You’re going to a lot of places where they don’t value human life like we do.”
Nobody, least of all me, with my conservative Republican roots, my Reformed religion, and my resistance to change, could foresee the unintended truth of that statement.  A statement we heard on numerous occasions as we prepared for our journey.
We [...]