Husband, Father, Writer, Beggar.
Husband, Father, Writer, Beggar.
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There’s nothing quite like a looming deadline to add excitement to a big project. A ticking clock can be a potent antidote to procrastination. Especially for someone like me, who is terribly lazy. My wife Mary is pregnant. She’s due…
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One of the things that I’m learning about construction is that plans change. The original idea for the foundation was to pour a monolithic slab. The word “monolithic” means “single stone”, and the idea is exactly that. We would fill…
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Or clay. It depends on where you live. Definitely not sand. Building on sand is a disaster waiting to happen. Floods and all that. Months ago, I started to write about building an addition to my house. Then? Crickets. I…
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For years now, I’ve been praying to be more like Jesus. Little did I know that God wants to start with carpentry. Back to basics, right? I moved my family out to the country a few years back because the…
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I'm a charismatic Catholic who lives on the outskirts of nowhere. God has given me a wife, a family, and a mission to feed the hungry. These are my stories.
