This morning, we awoke to a ridiculously huge thunderstorm, even by Missouri standards. I am composing this in the backseat of the car on our way to church, and it is still coming down. We’ve already passed couple of street lights that had no power, and frankly I was surprised that my house did not [...]
Taken near interstate 29 in northern Missouri
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I believe abortion is murder.
I also believe killing abortion providers is murder.
I am sure that you’ve heard about the shooting death of Dr. George Tiller, an abortion provider in Wichita, KS. Scott Roeder is accused of the crime.
I just feel that I need to put my two cents out there. I am pro life, but [...]
Ruth’s cabin is situated on a highway. Though it is a paved road with a state highway number, it is actually kind of a good thing to have… if you ever need to get out of the mountains quickly, it’s handy to be on a paved road already, and it’s usually not very busy. When [...]
On this day in 1860, the first Pony Express mail, traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously leaves St. Joseph, Missouri, and Sacramento, California. Ten days later, on April 13, the westbound rider and mail packet completed the approximately 1,800-mile journey and arrived in Sacramento, beating the eastbound packet’s arrival in St. Joseph by [...]
On Friday night, our local weather forcasters were predicting a LOT of snow overnight- between four and twelve inches, depending on who you asked, which is definitely a lot of snow for late march in Missouri. In fact, my parents and I went grocery shopping on Friday night, along with the rest of Kansas City. [...]
I was seventeen years old and a senior in high school. I’ve always been a bit of an overachiever and high school was no exception. That year, I was enrolled in sixteen hours of college credit through one local university, a full high school course load, plus a three hour evening class at a local [...]
I was born and raised near Kansas City, Missouri, colloquially known as the “city of fountains”. That worked out well, as I grew up to LOVE fountains. Technically I love water in general- swimming pools, lakes, rivers – and fountains are just sort of an extension of that.
I would love to install wall fountains, or [...]
Here’s a bunch of photos from our visit to Fort Osage yesterday.
These were taken on my camera (not my phone). Since my phone battery was dead, I used the camera. (in fact, I need to do that more! Some of the photos turned out nicely!)
There’s a couple of photos in there of me and my [...]
Last Friday, we had another big thunderstorm here.
I’m quite accustomed to thunderstorms- in fact, I rather enjoy them! So I was more excited than anything when they forecasted storms. All day Friday, it was very “gray” – overcast and colorless. When the storms rolled in Friday evening, they came with a bang- literally. The lightening [...]