History is interesting to me. Through the various seasons of life my interest in it has waxed and waned, but right now I'm really interested in it. My work at the California Trail Interpretive Center in Elko, NV has been very rewarding and has opened up new areas of knowledge and interest to me. As [...]
November Social Media Posts for the California Trail Interpretive Center
November 4 – Fridays with the Donner Party This past week the Donner Party left Truckee Meadows (Reno area) and began their travel up the Truckee River canyon into the Sierra Nevada Mountains. At Truckee Lake (now called Donner Lake) they encountered rain and snow, with snow quickly deepening up the pass beyond the lake. [...]
Daniel 2:1-28a – Know Your Audience!
Know your audience! This is an admonition that we should always keep in mind whether we're writing or speaking. Understanding the perspective of those with whom we wish to communicate is crucial to being able to convey our message truthfully and with grace. If you carefully read the books of the New Testament, for example, [...]
October Social Media Posts for the California Trail Interpretive Center
During the off-season months (October through April) I typically write social media posts for Fridays only for the California Trail Interpretive Center. This season I've chosen to follow the Donner Party during their ordeal in the Sierra Nevada Mountains during the winter of 1846/1847. I'm calling the posts "Fridays with the Donner Party". Here are [...]
Daniel 1:8-21 – Living with integrity when a culture wants to cancel you (pt. 2)
For those of you who don't know me well, I'll give you a bit of background about myself. I was a schoolteacher for 30 years (high school AP Physics and Geology, primarily) as well as doing various special assignment types of things for the school (tech support, university liaison, data analyst, etc.). After that I [...]
The Watchmaker's Pulse 