Monument BLOG

I spent a couple of hours with my siblings on Saturday at an IHOP in Fountain, CO. This was the place my dad went to almost weekly after church on Sunday. The wait staff knew him well. We all went there as it has been a year since my dad entered into the presence of...

In my Bible reading, which I will get to shortly, I was reminded of a young man named John Stephen Akhwari. Ever hear of him? No worries if not. He was a marathon runner from Tanzania in the 1968 Mexico Olympics. He was expected to finish quite high up, however,...

It has been quite a week in the news, prep for MHQ, and celebrating birthdays. I have been busy putting together my local tournament this week, even though it isn't until January 5. There is a lot of work that goes into doing a tournament, and even though this will be...

As I was reading the news this morning I saw that another parent of public school children was complaining about all that was going on in their public school. Her rant is worth watching as she pointed out some great issues. A couple of them were that we cannot 'feel'...

As I look back on my week, I think I can describe it best with the word..."interesting." I think it started with me making the bold Biblical statement about James 1 where it says to consider it joy when you face trials, or something like that. I was telling my local...

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...