In life I have found that true friends are a gift from God! I just had the chance to spend a few days with my buddy from Alaska, Mike Becker. He came down to Palm Springs for an Audi Specialist event. From attending an incredible concert in LA, to hanging out with a few of [...]

Every night, tens of thousands of children in Northern Uganda walk to nearby cities and sleep outside in order to protect themselves from abduction. For over twenty years, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) has been terrorizing Northern Uganda. Part of their strategy is to abduct children, force them to kill others or else be killed, [...]

Alright, I’m finally getting settled into my new place in sunny San Diego, California! My blogging has nearly dropped off the map for these past two months as it seems that I have been going crazy with things to do! From finishing up teaching at ABI to handling several large web design jobs at once, [...]

My bed shook violently, waking me up at 7:30 am this morning. I was too tired to know what was going on but later learned that an earthquake measuring 5.3 on the richter scale, had originated some 15 miles from Homer, shaking up the whole area. Everybody on campus experienced the quake! Meanwhile, the volcano [...]

Life in Alaska is never dull. Just as things were getting back to normal after the Christmas break, a local volcano decided to erupt on us. The good news is that Augustine is on an uninhabited island in the Cook Inlet. The only danger for Alaskans is the ash buildup that could affect people’s cars [...]

Life throws many interesting twists and turns our way but what happened today is uniquely Alaskan. This morning I flew across Kachemak Bay to a remote native village called Port Graham. Several of the students from ABI were performing a Christmas program for the village church and I went along to take pictures. Our group [...]

Most of you have probably heard, by now, that much to my own surprise, life’s often interesting path brought me to Alaska. For those of who wonder what in the world I am doing in a place like Alaska, let me explain. It all started last summer when an old friend from college visited me [...]