Merry Christmas from Eric, Maria and Dennise

Hello everyone, It’s Eric and Dennise’s annual Christmas letter. We hope this letter finds you and yours doing well. As you may have noticed, this letter was not so “annual” last year. As the holidays approached, we just couldn’t find the energy to get a letter done. But a year later, we’re much more rested. […]

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Goodbye, Dan Fogelberg

I have just heard the news about Dan’s death earlier today, and am still very much at a loss for words. I wrote this blog about Dan about two years ago. I probably don’t have a lot more to say today about Dan beyond than this tribute to him, and I hope you’ll consider giving […]

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Walking With My Feet Ten Feet Off of Beale

“Put on my blue suede shoes And I boarded the plane Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain” Got the chance to go to Memphis a while back, and I’ve been wanting to blog about it since. I’d been through Memphis many times, on the way […]

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Our California Road Trip: Spring Break 2007

For months now, I’ve been wanting to blog about our Spring Break trip to California. I did manage to write about this part of the trip. But not the whole thing. Today, I made a video of our pictures, and I’ve decided it pretty much tells the story better than I could. Here you go: […]

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My Immigration Blog Gets Republished

Dallas Area Progressive Christian Alliance is a small group of dedicated believers who happen to believe that not only can you be liberal/progressive and be a Christian, but that the Gospel perhaps even indicates a kind of progressivism that many do not typically associate with the faith They seek to stand as a counter to […]

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Hawks, A Not-Too-Swift Bet, and the Fleeting Nature of Celebrity

Yesterday morning, I was getting out of the car after taking Maria to school. I looked up, and there in the top of our front yard tree was a hawk. Just sitting there. I noted that he was surrounded by smaller birds, sort of pelting him. I’d seen that before, back when I’d written about […]

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What I Love About College Football

Where to start with the list of things I love about College Football? I love it way more than the Pros, that’s for sure, and not just because the Cowboys suck. First, on any given Saturday, it’s at least theoretically possible that the best team in the land might lose to somebody nobody’s heard of. […]

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