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  • Formative Experiences – An Introduction

    Formative Experiences – An Introduction

    No matter how formative your experience is becoming, don’t celebrate until you get out alive. Early celebration always invites extra disaster. Unless, of course, you’re experience isn’t satisfactory yet, then…

  • I Consider Myself Smarter Than A Donkey So I Remain Hopeful

    I Consider Myself Smarter Than A Donkey So I Remain Hopeful

    “There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible; difficult; done.”

  • Dissolving Steel Out of Aluminum with Alum Powder

    Dissolving Steel Out of Aluminum with Alum Powder

    This apparently comes from an old watchmaker’s trick. They frequently break steel screws in brass and they use this method to dissolve the screw out of the brass.

  • Halfway Sick

    Halfway Sick

    The soldiers storming the beaches of Normandy didn’t stay home because they had the sniffles.

  • Old Money

    Old Money

    It seems, from my limited perspective and time involved in missions, that older people find it harder to raise support.

  • Perspective!

    Perspective!

    It’s like your lens gets zoomed out wider and wider and you begin to realize that all the little things that looked so big to you are actually just a…

  • An Airplane Mechanic’s Guide to Raising Children

    An Airplane Mechanic’s Guide to Raising Children

    A blog full of great child rearing tips like Cleaning and Corrosion Control, Read the Manuals, Calibrate Your Instruments, etc.

  • When God Calls You to Eat an Elephant

    When God Calls You to Eat an Elephant

    When God does call you to eat an elephant, He will help you eat the entire carcass; even the chewy gross bits such as the floppy ears, big toenails, and…

  • Seven Serious, No Nonsense Tips for First Time Parents

    I’m not saying you have to be enthusiastic about poop – that may be a little overboard – but you’ll have to be able to tolerate it.