I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. But I never like losing. The only thing I dislike more than losing is getting my butt kicked. We took the 3 best sophomores and the 2 worst juniors to the Warren Woods-Tower Invitational today to play 18 holes at http://www.oakridgegolf.com where they proceeded to…

I hate to use the phrase “I feel blessed” because it is so cliche`. In fact, it’s just one of those phrases that makes me cringe to hear. Yet the reality is this. I have been tremendously blessed in the year or so I’ve been here. “What! Things couldn’t have gone worse? The church is…

here’s the man… Paul at the beach in Traverse 

megan at the cherry festivals childrens parade… traverse city, MI 

here’s megan on our vacation 

In golfing news, I had the best 9 holes of the year today. My front 9 were borderline infuriating. I had a couple of great tee shots… Started to get things rolling and then WHAM I would tee the ball dead left again. I thought I was past that? It happened on 4 and 7.…

A few days ago I wrote about being stressed out with bills and my inability to balance the household budget. Well, t hat was a few days ago and I’ve calmed down a bit. Things seem a little more under control right now than they did “way back then.” Some of this has to do…

You know, in the last 10 months since Mike left me, I’ve never heard that so much. It usually is strongest around the time that I do something that everyone likes. Person: Oh Adam, we just loved your sermon last week. Adam: Oh, well thank you. [secretly knowing to himself that he just reworked/rewrote/added to…

After 3 days of golf, we have made our team cuts. As the freshmen coach for the last two years, I can officially predict a talent slump on the varsity level beginning next year. (We’re fine for this year and I expect us to be back at the state finals.) This years sophomores and this…

It doesn’t matter what we do, there is always one time during the year that all of our money gets drained. Perhaps no previous year has been quite as much a squeeze as this year. I take that back. Summer of 1998 was worse than this. In that summer we actually had to get a…