Today begins our first family vacation. We’ve done shorter trips before, but this is four stops, nine states, four stops. one car.
Destination 1: Spring Hill, TN, to visit neighbors who moved south.
Everything has started out well. We hit the road at 5:50, a bit ahead of schedule. The kids didn’t go back to sleep, of course, but they kept busy with books and games. There was a delay just south of Louisville due to an earlier accident, yet we still made it to our destination in time for lunch.
After catching up we ventured into downtown Franklin for some window shopping followed by dinner at Papa Boudreaux’s.
The crawfish and shrimp étouffée was delicious, as you can see.
Now, we’ll relax at the pool for a bit before turning in for the night. Tomorrow we continue the journey south to our next destination.
by Jay Winik. An excellent book! Good history writing must strike a balance between fact and narrative, and Winik achieves that balance.
is the first in a trilogy by Suzanne Collins that was recently featured at the 
, on the shelf, and the final book, 
, is due out this August.
until now. It is a simple story that can be read in an afternoon but not digested in a lifetime. There really isn’t much that can be said. One thought I had: Any understanding of God must, somehow, account honestly for this story.
