If I had a wife..... I would have to confess that I have been cheating on her. Don't worry I haven't done anything stupid. I am just having an affair with three television shows; one HGTV and two Food Network shows. It has gotten bad, I mean the ladies who host the programs are fantastic, one is canadian - she has a cute little accent, and great tips on room design. One of the cooking shows features this great southern woman who would make a great grandma, and she uses a stick of butter for everything. The last is Everyday Italian, she guides you with a cinematic prowess that makes the food the story. It is as epic as Ben Hur but with pasta, plus she is kind, because at the end of every show she invites her friends to enjoy the take.

So there it is I have come clean. I need help.

We were in Palm Springs this weekend where we had the experience of being in a 5.6 earthquake....and....it was really FUN! I know that sounds weird but it was short enough to be a novelty.

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It happens with such regularity you would think it was scheduled. When I want to do good, or act on something in the right way, I cant do it. I want to, doing the right thing is appealing, and rightly so, but something in me says no. Its as if there is a hold out, an old man, I need obedience, or freedom, the law or some better form of spirituality. If I cant do it on my own who can save me? I want to live each day in the best way, but obviously not all of me agrees.

Romans 7

Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, on the one hand I myself with my mind am serving the law of God, but on the other, with my flesh the law of sin. Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

For what the Law could not do, weak as it was through the flesh, God did: sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and as an offering for sin, He condemned sin in the flesh, so that the requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.


But it is still not cut and dry, and I want that on some level.

Wow. It's June already. That is hard to believe. It is easy to think "well it isn't so bad, there is all of June, July, and August before summer is actually gone." And so it is gone already.

It feels like I am either chasing money, or it is chasing me.

Summer is here, the distinct season of fun and freedom. An anniversary of; The Little Shop of Horrors play, 3 years ago now. 4 Years ago when we/I became friends with Maggie for the first time. 2 years ago when the Ritchies lived in Big Rock, and Maggie came back from England. Last year when we/I came back for Christina's wedding, also Brigit Noah's wedding too. Walks in the Big Rock cemetery. John Roth's birthday and the parties. Coffee houses. Going to the McAlister's. Fires at the Gogot's in the early summer. Getting to know Annemarie and Megan for the first time after the play 3 years ago, and hanging out with the Frosts. 4th of July last year at the lake house in Sandwich, clapping at fireworks. Going to the beach last year with Chet in California. Big Rock again, the quarry and walks. Downtown Wheaton. Fields. Thunderstorms in Big Rock, on the porch. Ughhh. It is all beautiful. So even though it may be hot and humid. Enjoy your summer, you crazy kids.