The Lake House Investment

Of all the investments my dad has made over the years, the one with the highest return has to be the family lake house. I’m not talking about financial gain, although if he sold it today he would make a pretty penny. No, the lake house has more to do with relational yields than it [...]

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Serenity

I am at peace. Whenever I am at the lake, I find serenity.
When my husband was first diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and we were scared to death that the diagnosis would ruin our lives, I found peace at the water’s edge. When my dad was in the hospital all last summer, our family still [...]

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At the Bean

I drove to Chicago today. Two of my boys had stayed the weekend with my cousin and her family, and I was only going to pick them up, visit for a while and then drive back to Indy. But cousin only lives 5-10 minutes from the Magnificent Mile. And it is summertime. And it’s [...]

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Back home again in Indiana

Sometimes I wonder why we live in Indiana? After spending 11 days out west, this notion is stronger than ever. The mountains and the history and culture out west breathe life in me. I have churned these questions over and over in my head: How can we live out here and build community anew? How [...]

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SNOW in June?

Excuse me, but is this June? Sure seems like I’m on a winter vacation right now. I’m sitting in a log cabin while it continues to snow, snow, snow. Yellowstone is closed. Yes, closed.
So here we sit in a lodge built in the 1920s with people all over the country who have tried to get [...]

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No one Ever Told Me

The Badlands National Park, in South Dakota, has been there all my life, yet no one ever told me. I am truly amazed that no one has sent me trekking this way before. No one has shared their enthusiasm for this natural wonder in this beautiful land called South Dakota. How could it have taken [...]

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Pictures from camping

Here are some of my favorite scenes from two weekends of camping in September.
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Dunes scenery
shirts on sticks 
What happened next
Bret laughing with Jaden
Ethan and Noah at the waterfall
me (in the middle) and my peeps
boys at mccormicks creek
the light at the end of the tunnel
trying to make fire
Chloe making Asher hit himself
peek a boo

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spring break pix

Below are posts from an old blog I had. I didn’t want the pix to go away so I transported them into this one. It was a blog I kept with my hubby’s family…. that’s why it sounds like I’m writing someone in particular.
We survived Spring Break with 20 of my (lynn’s) family members. I [...]

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