July 11th, 2006 
Tristan Our senior pastor, Fred, occasionally writes articles for the Plainfield Enterprise, one of the newspapers in the same city as our church. He is currently on sabbatical in Europe with his family, and he asked me if I would write his article for him while he is gone. Sharon and I wrote this article together. [...]
June 22nd, 2006 Tristan Well, folks, our house is slowly looking better. Here’s a before-and-after of the kitchen for you: The floor is still 10-year-old scratched-up linoleum with pink and blue flowers… eventually we hope to replace that. I’d also like to install track lighting over the left counter area one of these days. But for now, we’re pretty [...]
June 19th, 2006 Tristan I spent Thursday and Friday at the Willow Creek Arts Conference. (Afterward, my friend Dave and I visited the Art Institute of Chicago. He has some great pics on his blog.) I’ve never been to Willow before, and I was really impressed. Sure, their campus is huge and beautiful, but I was even more impressed [...]
June 9th, 2006 Tristan …was fantastic. We stayed in Chico, which is way up in northern Cali – about 90 minutes north of Sacramento or 8 hours north of Los Angeles. It was a week of great physical exercise and extraordinary gastronomic delights. I played 3-on-3 basketball with people who were way out of my league (almost all of [...]
May 25th, 2006 Tristan Our yard is no longer overgrown, and we have a garden. It looks like this: And this insane vine was slowly digesting our porch: I didn’t realize how massive it was until I cut it all off. The porch looks better now. In other news, we’re flying to California on Saturday to visit some of [...]
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