Robin purchased John Eldridge’s book titled Epic for me on the afternoon of July 17, 2005. The next day, Monday July 18, I read Epic on a long flight from Dallas-Ft Worth to Seattle. I was deeply moved. Epic is about God’s complete “story”, from beginning to end, of all history and future. Eldridge tells … Read morePart 5: The Epic Story
My fondest memory of the Sunday school that I attended as a child at my grandmother’s church is about a man named Herman Marchbanks (Brother Hermy). He was my Sunday school teacher. He always seemed to take a special interest in my brother, Keith, and me. I remember that he named his first son after … Read morePart 4: The Sowers
Fast forward 20 years. In early 2000, Robin and I made a life changing decision to remove our children from the negative influences of public schools. We had become very frustrated with the administration governing the public school that Amanda and James were attending. We were seeing our children exposed to invasive social indoctrination which … Read morePart 3: A Question of Faith
I’ve always viewed myself as strong willed, fiercely independent, highly self motivated, ambitious, and hard working. I’m very analytical. I think things through. I anticipate events and plan contingencies. I have high expectations and low tolerance for mediocrity. I make things happen. I have always attributed any success I’ve had in life to these attributes. … Read morePart 2:
Reaching the American Dream
My mother is a well-educated native Italian who was born and raised in central Milano, and is a survivor of several “close calls” with death during World War II. My father was a native of Oklahoma and was raised in a “grapes of wrath” family of migrant farm workers. My parents met in Italy in … Read morePart 1: The Beginning