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This photo was taken by our daughter, Sarah Timmons, or my wife, depending on who you ask. We were in Rehoboth Beach, DE on Easter Sunday, 2011.


Several years ago, on the way home from a family vacation, I picked up a notebook and quickly recorded an incident that had occurred involving our son. Eventually, I used that story to illustrate something about my spiritual walk as a believer in Christ. Thus began a deliberate attempt to document the significance of everyday events. Almost any ordinary circumstance in daily life can become fodder for another story. This, almost by definition, lends itself to a blog.

Of course, many of the entries here are just ordinary diary style stuff... the stuff of ordinary blogs. Good grief, I don't want to be ordinary.


Q.& A.


Perhaps after reading my blog, you (and by you, I mean both of you) have some questions .  Here are the answers to some common ones (at least questions which I would ask).

  • This is some great stuff.  Is there a book out there?
Well, there should be, if I must say so myself.  As of October, 2012, there were 48 articles which have appeared in the Manna.  It would be cool to compile them into a book entitled "I Was Minding My Own Business, Then Life Happened ".  If you are reading this and you are a publisher, you should contact me immediately.  If you are reading this and think I'm serious, then you should know that I have a firm grasp on reality, and I know that writers (especially bloggers) are a dime a dozen. 

  • Do you write anything besides Manna articles and blog entries?
Funny you should ask.  I started a book for our kids a few years ago.  It's about four kids who stumble onto some artifacts in Lewes, Delaware which shed light on the first settlement in Delaware - Swanendael.  The fictitious story, based in some fact, hit a road block about a third of the way through.  As soon as I iron out those problems, we will press on in the writing of the story.  If you are reading this and you are a publisher, you should contact me immediately after contacting me about the other book.

  • So, besides all that stuff, what else do you write? 
I used to write letters to people before the advent of e-mail.  Many of them were awful.  Once in a while, someone actually appreciated it, let me know, and I learned what to and not to say in a letter.  Nevertheless, I still often say things I ought not to. I also wrote some Bible study type things which I shared with the group of believers with whom we fellowship.  Speaking is not my thing.  I would rather write. There is some other writing in the miscellaneous category, all of which is interesting, I'm sure. 

  • What's the best thing you can do for me? 
Nothing.  It's not about that.

  • Do you make any money from any of this?
Are you kidding?  Of course not.  I do this for 3 reasons:  1) It's fun, and 2) I failed in my career endeavor to be a mathematician and needed to find another way to entertain/redeem myself.

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