Archive for August, 2008

Getting to Know You, Part 3

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Helene’s first order of business every morning is determining “Where are we going to go today?” She does NOT like staying at home, much to her mother’s dismay. We try to have at least 2 outings planned for each week (this doesn’t include walks or park visits, which don’t involve getting in the car.) Helene [...]

Getting to Know You, Part 2

Monday, August 25th, 2008

And now for the introductions. I’ll start with Scott. Pretty standard stuff with him, I guess. He works regular hours, 5 days a week. He likes his job a lot, and he loves architecture in general. In fact he spends a lot of his spare time reading books and magazines on architecture or looking at [...]

Getting to Know You, Part 1

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I have been composing this series of posts in my head for a while now, never fully believing I would actually get them done. But today is the day I’m trying to catch up on things. I finally replied to some emails that were weeks (or months) old, I made some phone calls I had [...]

Haiti Trip

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

As many of you know I went to Haiti in early June with an organization called EMI. EMI is a Christian ministry that provides free architectural and engineering services to other Christian ministries that are helping the poor and preaching the Gospel around the world. They do this primarily through leading teams of engineers, [...]