My Favorite Thanksgiving

Dad and my nephew Craig, Thanksgiving, 2007 Grateful Lives In November of 2007, Rich and I were newlyweds of not quite three months. We’d been evacuated from our beloved home a month earlier due to a massive wildfire. Our home, and our entire neighborhood, had been spared, thanks to God’s grace and some hard, hard […]


My Favorite Thanksgiving

Dad and my nephew Craig, Thanksgiving, 2007 Grateful Lives In November of 2007, Rich and I were newlyweds of not quite three months. We’d been evacuated from our beloved home a month earlier due to a massive wildfire. Our home, and our entire neighborhood, had been spared, thanks to God’s grace and some hard, hard […]


Jesus Gave me Socks

Heroes at Cook’s Corner. October 22, 2007. Crisis and Inconvenience: A Lesson in Pridefulness and Dependence We invited Rich’s parents to join us for dinner on Sunday, October 21, 2007. We passed a splendid afternoon together. Fifteen minutes after they left our home, Rich’s dad phoned us to say that he had spotted smoke while […]