Neighborhood block party

A few weeks ago we got an invitation to a neighborhood block party. We were pretty jazzed up about the opportunity to meet neighbors and share our Arkansas wisdom with all interested parties. Carolyn made a delicious strawberry-ish dessert she…

Tweet Week Summary

RT @northstarfamily We joined other churches to give furniture to 193 people from 16 nations, with China (46%) and India (41%) being largest # Just french-pressed some Mill Mountain Coffee, opened scripture, with cool night air blowing through from window……

Updated feed

I’m updating my blog feed to be If you are subscribed in a feed reader to , you will need to update the feed to the new location. I think it should do it for you automagically, but check…

A night in Floyd

When Rex emailed and suggested that we join him and the Cooks for a night in Floyd, Virginia for bluegrass music and Mexican food, I thought of all kinds of sarcastic electronic retorts. Rather than resist the cultural juggernaut that…

The Death of Linkage

I first started blogging back in September of 2005. It’s hard to believe that to date, Notes from the Trail has 1273 posts and 4980 comments! It’s been an amazing adventure into relational creativity. Oh, the places we’ve gone! I’ve…

It only takes one or two…

Who would have thought my attitude toward AT&T (which was admittedly declining rapidly) could change in a day? Yesterday, I blogged about our less-than-ideal experience with their service here in Blacksburg. It’s been pretty frustrating to be in a rapidly…

AT&T experience in Blacksburg

For those of you who follow me on Twitter or have seen my updates on Facebook, you have probably felt my pain in recent weeks as I’ve discovered AT&T’s poor Edge service in Blacksburg. When we moved to a larger…

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