2014: My First Year In Blog

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2014 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,200 times in 2014. If it were a cable car, it would take about 20 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the …

Calling on the Name of the Lord (Genesis 4:26)

It's been a little while since my last biblical post on Cain in Genesis 4 (https://mjhmusings.wordpress.com/2014/08/23/what-did-cain-do-wrong-genesis-4/), as I've been distracted by my Grand Adventure. Now that the dust of the desert has settled, I'll return to my Genesis theme... Chapters 3 & 4 in Genesis are all doom and gloom: sin, curses, punishment and fratricide. …

Parenthood: The Greatest Adventure of All

I discovered recently that I’m going to be a dad: Lucy and I are expecting our first child next May. We’ve had the 12-week scan to confirm that all is well, which meant we could share our news with friends and family at last. I was quite overwhelmed by the outpouring of affection and goodwill …

Memories of the Desert, part 2

My last post on my Grand Adventure, the second part of some photographic highlights. I hope you managed to read the first part, but if not, here’s the link (https://mjhmusings.wordpress.com/2014/12/07/memories-of-the-desert-part-1/). Now, I finish with the last 14 images, each capturing a different unforgettable moment of my adventure.   Glorious Ruins If any pictures captures the …

Memories of the Desert, part 1

I hope you’ve been following my posts over the last few months. I’ve been telling the story of Mike’s Grand Adventure: my preparation, the cause I was fundraising for and my adventures out in the American Southwest. Now I’ve told all that there is to tell, or at least, all that you might want to …