Last week I was able to visit with my friends and colleagues at Taylor University - Ft. Wayne. They are in the midst of moving from their old facility (known as the Lehman Library), to a brand new, multimillion-dollar facility named the Calvin H. English Library. While they have a long ways to [...]

Last night as we were driving home from a trip to the western portion of the state, we became a little concerned by the fact that a nasty looking thunderstorm was rapidly approaching. Weather updates on the radio warned of severe thunderstorms in the area. Because we were driving in the same [...]

My daughter, Brinley, is 20 months old and at the stage where she is broadening her vocabulary. When that is combined with our efforts to teach her good manners, we get some funny results. She is still confused, for example, about when it is proper to say “Thank you!” versus “You’re welcome!” [...]

Today I accomplished something so amazing, so daunting, that I am quite proud of myself. I cleaned out our refrigerator. Yes, that’s one of my least favorite tasks. Check it out. Isn’t that a nice, sparkly clean refrigerator to be proud of?

Just proved the usefulness of RSS once again…having heard via MacCentral that today, Apple released a new version of the Safari web browser. Unfortunately the one thing that remains the one problematic site for which I’d like to use Safari, OCLC’s Connexion service, still won’t work in spite of the improvements in this new [...]

Walt Crawford, one of the people whose writings and thoughts on librarianship I most respect, if only because he doesn’t seem to take himself too seriously (and for many other reasons, also), has renewed a call for interest in COWLZ via his weblog. COWLZ stands for Consortium/Coalition/Committee Of Web-based Library Zines and newsletters. [...]

Some time ago, I read about Grokker, a new type of web search engine that presents results visually in cluster maps (think something like Venn diagrams), rather than in a long series of search results to page through one by one. Put in simple terms, the idea behind Grokker is to enable the searcher [...]

Saturday morning, we drove up to Marshall, Michigan, to meet my in-laws on their way up to Canada. Keegan went with them for a week-long missions trip to Manitoulin Island. This is Keegan’s sixth year of making this trip. Our previous home church, Wheaton Bible Church, sponsors a short-term missions trip each [...]

Michele has been bitten by the blogging bug (yeah!) and now has her own blog, called My Thyme, at http://mythyme.blogspot.com. Check it out!

One of the things that has been very challenging for Michele and me is finding a new church home, a place where we feel connected and part of a community. We tried a local church for much of the past two and a half years and it simply wasn’t working. Although many people [...]