Monument BLOG

I am well into the Psalms at this point of my second time through the Bible this year. Reading the news and then the Psalms is quite the adventure, especially these days when so much is going on all over the place. I read a story about a NC candidate running for their...

It is hard to believe the summer is essentially over and we are getting ready to start meeting as a club tomorrow (for my local LOGOS Club in Colorado). There is a lot to do today to get ready, and it didn't help that I couldn't log in to either of my sites for...

I had the pleasure of being the caterer for the marriage of Todd Adams and Mary Winther (now Mary Adams) this past Saturday. They had both lost their spouses to disease. Mike Winther having passed away from COVID roughly 5 years ago, and Todd's wife Colleen passed...

I sure is nice to be home for a while. I love to travel, but being home for about 12 weeks straight will help prepare me for the upcoming competition season when I'll be gone a lot of the time again. I will post the tournaments I'm heading to as I get them set up. I...

It was a great summer of camps, but I am happy to be home. I was away for two full weeks, and that was a bit exhausting, esp. when I flew from San Jose, CA to Jacksonville, FL a week ago Sunday, then had to get up the next morning essentially 3 hours earlier and start...

I am in Jacksonville, FL for my last camp of the summer. It has been a great set of camps, and the students have been wonderful. But it is time to get back to my family. I will have been gone for two weeks straight, with last week being my 41st wedding anniversary. I...

Today, Monday, August 3, is the 41st Anniversary for my wife and I. Can you believe she has put up with me for 41 years? She is a strong woman. We are celebrating this milestone by me being in California doing a Monument Camp. This is how we have celebrated the last 4...

This has been a harder last few days than I have had in a while. Not physically. My physical heart is doing great still. Emotionally, it has been tough.  This past Saturday, one of my daughters came into my office. She looked very upset and asked to talk to me....

I was at church Sunday morning and I was asked if I was in my less busy time now that the Speech and Debate season was over. I chuckled and said that I was flying to Phoenix that afternoon to do a 4 day camp, then Baton Rouge the week after that, then San Jose the...

A lot has happened this week. We just completed Rhetoric in the Rockies, and it was a great camp. The facility was wonderful, and the event itself was incredible.  The big news of the week though is that long time Senator Lindsay Graham passed away suddenly and...

We had a great weekend with our family. We celebrated Independence Day at my son's place and we did our own fireworks there. Our city, like many others, banned fireworks within the city limits, but almost no one followed that decree, as evidenced by the vast amounts...

My Monument Monday is out a bit later today than normal. Mainly because I went to see my cardiologist today for my post echo visit. The doctor said I was continuing to do very well. So well, in fact, that he took me off ALL of my heart medications!!! I was hoping for...