A busy few weeks...

No digital camera yet...so still no pictures to show. But, feel free to use your imaginations...

Finished up the semster at HUC - one more to go and it's on to exams and my dissertation. The topic is rounding out nicely...hope to have something very concrete (first few chapters?) by this time next year.

Sylvia and I spent Christmas in Miami, FL. The weather on Christmas day - 85, sunny...absolutely gorgeous. We spent some time at South Beach, and a few days in Key West. A really great time all around. The highlight of the trip? As usual for us, the food - oyster po boys, lobster cakes, oysters on the half shell, steaks, chorizo, parillada, pizza margherita, and hand-made Key West ice cream that also saved me from having a huge intenstinal catastrophe.

After Miami, it was off to Camp Wonderland in Wisconsin for the 180 Ministries Retreat. It was quite an experience to see the heart of our father being revealed.

We're in Chicago right now - stopped by here to visit the in-laws after the retreat, heading back to Cincinnati in the morning. I miss my bed. I miss my desk. I miss my Ichiro bobble-head who provides me with all of life's answers (almost always with a nod for yes). I miss pooping in my own toilet. I miss cooking (weird huh) and going to the jungle.