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Is It Really Almost Friday?
It’s been pretty gloomy and chilly outside this week (I realize that “chilly” is relative – it was negative 11 degrees last night where my in-laws live!), so we’ve been having a fun time snuggling inside the Pitsch house. Emelyn has many new toys to occupy her time, as well as her Bumbo chair (what [...]
Continue reading...Reflections on 2008
3. January 2009
Here’s my list of top experiences of 2008: (1) EMELYN GRACE: Born June 30, 2008, at 5:08 p.m. What a life-changing moment. All the cliches about parenthood are true. It is a wonderful, vulnerable, amazing, sweet experience. She turned six months on December 30, and I can honestly say, even when it has been hard (hello [...]
Continue reading...My $14,400 Vote
4. November 2008
My lovely wife signed us up for absentee ballots for this years presidential election. Thank you Amy! Filling out the voters form in the comfort of my own home over the course of several days was far better than braving the crowds! I want to talk briefly about why I (and my wonderful wife) voted for [...]
Continue reading...Should We Be Concerned?
24. October 2008
In June 2007, we returned from a trip to DC to find someone had broken into our home and stolen a few items. Then, a couple months later, someone stole our recycling bins from our curb – that’s right, recycling bins that can be obtained from the City of Winter Park, for free, were taken. [...]
Continue reading...Full Circle
18. October 2008
On October 12, 2008, as our Emelyn was being baptized, God took home one of his faithful servants, my grandfather, Joseph Alvin Scharer. He was 87 years old and he lived a wonderful, full life. A Navy Chaplain during WWII, he married my grandmother Helen when he returned from the war and loved her for [...]
Continue reading...NOT PC
3. October 2008
A guy was doing some drywall work and painting at our house today and as I was paying him, we got to talking about the VP debate last night. And as casually as could be, he says, “Well, I’m voting for McCain because I don’t want no black man running this country.” Wow. You did [...]
Continue reading...Good Morning
1. October 2008
So check out this link http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/2008/09/408-double-greeting.html. This guy is hilarious – he’s involved in Christian work and he often pegs, in hilarious fashion, stereotypical things Christians say, do, or think. He has an entire website called “stuff christians like” and I get a huge kick out of it. Anyway, the link above is his take [...]
Continue reading...To Laugh
28. September 2008
“Sexiness wears thin after awhile and beauty fades but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that’s a real treat!” Joanne Woodward said that about her husband of 50 years, Paul Newman. I like that and I agree. To laugh with someone is the best.
Continue reading...We Wish We Were Those People
27. September 2008
You know, the committed American citizens who watched the presidential debate on Friday night. Don’t get me wrong, we tried. But I think after 15-20 minutes, we were both weary of it and he migrated to the Internet and I found myself watching the season premiere of a show I had recorded the day before. [...]
Continue reading...Women's Roles
2. September 2008
Got a blog update today from a Christian blogger I read often – she is the mother of 6 and a bright, quirky individual. She is opinionated, but not necessarily in the ways you would think, and surprises me with her originality. I like her (don’t know her). So, in the midst of blogging with [...]
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15. January 2009
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