& now to birthday #58.It’s come to this: 58 years! Don’t worry, the theme here is—the future is so bright, I might have to get some prescription sunglasses. At the start of this year, Emmy was on her way, and made it safely to Memphis on February 1st, then to Cincinnati, San Diego, back to [...]

Happy Birthday, Shelby! We are so proud of you, and so glad you are part of our family and we are part of yours. Your beauty, talent, compassion, humor, dedication, devotion, and love inspire us and make us ever grateful to God that He brought you and Michael together. Enjoy the 5k race and your [...]

Dateline: July 23, 1977, Manhattan, KS. Home of Bruce, Joan, and Matthew Edwards. God designs daughters. He commissions them. He makes each of them special and unique, and sends them to us to change the lives and the world of the families to which he has assigned them. We have been granted Mary Elizabeth, and [...]

I have only one daughter, hence, only one possible son-in-law. And there has only ever been one possible son-in-law: Joseph Casey Sanford. From the time we first heard rumors of Casey (Mary: “I may have met someone. . .”) while we were in Africa, to the phone calls Casey and I shared from my plush [...]

Joan Christine Lungstrum brightened an otherwise brisk, blustery Topeka on an April 7th day in 1953 when she agreed to show up to help save the world under her Heavenly Father’s commission. With visits and stops and adventures in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, Brisbane, Washington, DC, Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania, [...]

Instructions for enjoying birthday: LISTEN, READ, CELEBRATE, WATCH, TREASURE. Start here: LISTEN: Mike’s 26th Birthday: A Dad’s Remembrance PODCAST. READ: Dearest Michael, on your 26th birthday, you have so much to be thankful for! Not the least of which is being able to celebrate this birthday as the husband of your beautiful Shelby for the [...]

Watch this first. I apologize that my sound engineer fell asleep at the end but if you want to verify what is said at the very then, or anywhere else, here is a transcript of this Very Special Episode of Justin’s 30th Birthday Documentary by me. Happy 30th, Son! Last birthday you’d flown in all [...]

35 years ago I became a dad. We went to bed in St. James, MO, on January 7, 1975, wondering, hoping, praying, that this would be the night. It would be. By Noon, Matt was patiently waiting on us, ready to come out, and so he met us at the Rolla, MO hospital. Cold outside, [...]

I don’t know yet what her name is. I don’t know exactly when she will be arriving. But sometime, in just over a month, there is going to be a new Edwards talking, crying, laughing, already is a New Edwards. She’s coming. A granddaughter. Precious. Unique. Bounty beyond beauty. A granddaughter. I will never forget [...]

Today is my mom’s birthday. If she were still this side of heaven, she would be 79. I have said much about her and what she taught me in an article I published in the Akron Beacon Journal, mailed out to my family a few weeks ago. I won’t repeat that here. But I will [...]