Sorry about so many posts. But I had positive things to share. I awaken at 2 AM this morning. I checked my phone and there was an automatically generated text message that my cancer labs were in. With hesitation, I got up to check them. With so much at stake, it can be nerve racking…

I am home from Iceland, in body at least. The last forty-eight hours were intense. First a 150 mile drive through Iceland’s western fjords, dogging a plethora of raindrops and sheep (who roam freely along the busy, zooming highways), but enjoying the emerald hills, waterfalls, and mountains. Then turning in my Land Rover Defender (driving…

Sadness is gripping my heart this morning. But it is an ordinary sadness that all readers will be familiar. For today, the second chunk of my family departs this intriguing land of water, fire, and ice, heading back across the Atlantic to our homes in the Pacific northwest, another land of ice, water, and fire.…

I am writing this from Reykjavik. If I had found a way to be successful as a writer, (financially) I would do all my writing here. There is something magical about the Icelandic culture that inspires the imagination. There is something very unpretentious about its people. We are renting a movie director’s house, I think…

Fore note: This written blog is a cousin to a podcast I did about “The Stiff Upper Lip,” so if you are one of the people who listened to that, there will be some redundancy here. Culture is inescapable. It probably serves a positive role in making the way we think and act robotic, so…

To segway from my previous post and pod cast, I want to focus on one aspect of American Christian mischief, one of a thousand cuts that has led to the irrevocable demise of American cultural Christianity. After that, I want to leave this topic of religion before someone accuses me of having an agenda. But…

 It is inevitable that we are entering a post-Christian world. Europe entered this phase 75 years ago and now it is America’s turn. For the first time (2020), less than 50% of Americans are church members. When you do visit a church, it is an ocean of gray or bald heads. When you divide it…

If you look at the photos below, you won’t see a lot of progress. I have one new inside wall up. However, my work has slowed to a crawl. As I’ve mentioned before, it is due to two reasons. One is taking a break to go back and fix mistakes I’ve made. The biggest mistake…

Well, I lied. I said I was going to combine all my forms of communication via my blog into a vlog (video blog) centered around the cottage building with some of my thoughts mixed in occasionally. However, with only an iPhone to work with and no way to edit videos, I’ve changed my mind. Too…