& 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 [...]

So far away. . .

These photos and the accompanying score (“Kencil Box theme” from RSB) are thanks to Mike, and reveal Sebo’s odyssey in and around Dakota with various companions.

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 [...]

#36 and #10 celebrate their 8th anniversary! We wish we could be there, of course, in that Alaskan sunlight in which you could have a party all night long. But we will rejoice where we are in knowing you are ensconced in your wonderful cabin with son and dogs and having the times of your [...]

On Memorial Day, I usually reference some historic moments on Memorial Days past, but I will let that link that captures all those moments in successive posts to suffice this year. This Memorial Day, I am rejoicing in the knowledge that so far 2010 has brought us Emery Solana, a visit from Sebo, Mary, and [...]

Below is a celebratory poem I wrote for Mother’s Day 2010 as a tribute to Joan Christine, Mary Elizabeth, and Tracey Colleen. These are the moms in the Edwards clan so far. May Sebo, Emery, and the four Edwards siblings rejoice in their mom’s love, discipline, and grace. To my own mom, Betty Lou, thanks [...]

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 [...]