I hope you are all having a blessed Easter. I hope you get time to spend with family and/or friends. And I hope you get to know God a little more today. Church for me was fine this morning. It was raining which is very unusual for us here in the Phoenix area for Easter….
Month: March 2024
Getting Past the Haters and the Voices
I love music. If you read this you know that. I recently watched a youtube video and it inspired me to write something about the haters in the world. Lindsey Stirling is a violinist that I really enjoy listening to. She has been around for a while now, and if you don’t know who she…
A Trip to Death and Trees – Part 5
It got COLD and WINDY overnight. The temperature when we got up was around 35 degrees F, and the winds were gusting up to 50mph (from what we heard). It was brutal. The sunrise was nice. We managed to get breakfast made and the tent down (only one night here), and we then headed to…
A Trip to Death and Trees – Part 4
The next day we headed into Joshua Tree NP. We hit the ranger station first and got some info on hikes and Jr. Ranger books for the girls. Then we headed in. We did a couple short hikes before lunch: the Hidden Valley Loop and the Barker Dam Loop. Both were nice and we saw…
A Trip to Death and Trees – Part 3
We packed up camp the next morning, the girls became Jr. Rangers at Death Valley (#40 something), and we drove out a different way then we came into the park. We went to the sand dunes and played in that a little, and then headed to Mosaic Canyon to do a hike. This was a…
Making It So: A Memoir – a book review
So, I just finished listening to Sir Patrick Stewart read his memoir “Making It So: A Memoir”. It was awesome. (I will do my best to keep this spoiler free) I want to start by saying that if you are a fan of Sir Patrick on Broadway, in the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), on Star…
A Trip to Death and Trees – Part 2
The next day we decided to head to “The Racetrack”. This is where the rocks move on their own and lave tracks behind them. I had heard about this before and wanted to see it if we could. What I didn’t realize was that it was a drive to get there. First it was about…
A Trip To Death and Trees – Part 1
This last week has been my spring break from school. It happens to also one up with one of my girls weeks of spring break. This is the first time this has happened in I think 5 years. So, we decided, months ago, to travel as a family for the week. And we decided to…
Live Online is Dragging Me Down
Ever since the pandemic starting in Spring of 2020 I have been teaching at least 1 class as a live online physics class. For those that don’t know what that is here you go. It is where the students have to log into a live class using Webex (Like zoom or google chat) and we…