First saw this over on Lou’s blog. Too funny. Try it out at www.yearbookyourself.com.

We learned a lot being without power for four days and without phone and internet for five. You can watch a movie on your laptop… but when your spouse says, “Why don’t you fix us some popcorn?” you realize that she’s getting sleepy. You most likely will never stop flicking on switches when you enter [...]

Tree down. Power out. iPhone works. So blogging is unhindered. Check out journeyguy.swurl.com this week. I’ve got jury duty and will only be microblogging. Be sure to comment there. It’s cool how comments work on Swurl.

Many of you have followed my Moped Saga. It began last year with the attempt by my family to be a one-car family due to finances (can we say gas prices?). After successfully parking my Nissan for a month without any use, we sold it to some friends. We were given a 1988 Honda Elite [...]

The Awe Factor Of God – Francis Chan If this doesn’t give you a little perspective on life and wonder today, I don’t know what will. When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of [...]

Our community has enjoyed a local news website since the fall of 2006 – MonticelloLive.com. Several months after its birth, the local weekly started a site called MyMonticelloNews.net in an attempt to compete. In spite of having a large staff and advertising budget, the local paper, still a part of the MSM (main stream media) [...]

It’s been a crazy past week here at the Noble household trying to get our school routine down. Car-pooling, kids’ activities and sports, photography shoots, meetings and out-of-town trips have taxed our one-car, no-scooter strategy. We’ve put it off as long as we can, so… This weekend we’ll be doing some serious scooter shopping. My [...]

Red by Ted Dekker   Holy cow. I just put it down and told Carolyn that this may be one of the most moving and dramatic fiction epics I’ve ever read. Does that grab your attention? I read Black, the first book in the Circle Trilogy many months ago. It left me with a curious [...]

The Shack by William P. Young   “The love shack… it’s a little old place where we can get together…” With refrains of that song in my head, I would have to say that love is what The Shack is about. Many have billed the short story as a modern day Pilgrim’s Progress. I don’t [...]

Sunday night was the last night of freedom for the kids before school started. We had a dual-purpose family meeting in the living room. One of the purposes was to spend time in prayer with the kids, commissioning them, so to speak, to be representatives of their Lord, our church and our family at school [...]

What a full day we had yesterday! The Noble family rose at the crack of dawn to head to Little Rock in different directions. Carolyn and Adelyn rode with some friends to LR so that Adelyn could try out for the Nutcracker – her second year. Much to the Monticello’s crew delight, all the girls [...]

A fun video about the history of Apple…

Death in the City by Francis A. Schaeffer   I’ve heard dozens of people that I respect talk about Francis Schaeffer over the years. I had never read anything by him other than some thought-provoking quotes in other’s works. Now I know what all the fuss is about. Born in 1912, he left a lasting [...]

  Whew. We made the trek home from San Angelo this a.m. Caro and the kids had been there for several days, and Jeremy and I joined them Friday evening after a week in Glorieta. Tons of fun crammed into one day! We jetskiied, tubed, and played a new game called ladder ball. Caro and [...]