This I Know

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
I learned something new this week….April and May are the top months for tornado touch-downs in the state of Tennessee.  I tend to believe the statistic to be correct.  In the last week, we’ve had two tornado warnings (With grave forecasts of another today.)  and enough lightning to make the cats all [...]

In Search of the Weinermobile

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Utterly baffled.  That’s what we were.  Wednesday morning Jeff and I stood, shivering violently, in the rental car garage at the airport in Omaha, Nebraska.  We had rented a car but, due to a series of unfortunate events, (Belonging to the rental company, not us.) we were still waiting for [...]

The Promise of Spring

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
It’s a frosty morning here in middle Tennessee.  It’s so cold that the cats won’t even sleep in their climbing tower — which is situated in front of the only window in our office.  Usually, the tower is the coveted cat location and we have fur-flinging fights over who gets to [...]

A Painful Epiphany

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Something happened to me last Sunday that has never happened before.  Jeff and I were visiting the next contestant in our seemingly ever-present quest to find a new church home.  Nothing unusual there.  We were enjoying the experience, although the church was on the smallish-side, thus making Jeff and I stick out [...]

To Live with Fear

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
Note:  This blog has been kicking around in my draft file for several months now as its subject is something I truly struggle with and am not exactly comfortable writing about.  Every time I’ve written on this file, I kept asking myself, “Do I really want to put all of these [...]

Out of my Shell

By Kieran Lin Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
I decided last week that I didn’t want to be “Kiera” anymore.  It’s just not natural and it’s just not me.  Yes, I do realize that I am opening myself up to a lifetime of correcting people about how to pronounce my name; but it’s better this way — at least [...]

Caution: Falling Coyotes

By Kiera Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
I was feeling a little under the weather yesterday morning.  So instead of doing my usual Saturday stuff, I sat on the couch with the remote, a big fuzzy blanket, and two even fuzzier cats.  Feeling gross always makes me reach for the familiar and the comfortable.  Yesterday was no exception as [...]

Go Change the World

By Jeff Rich – RichJ44@bellsouth.net
Disclaimer:  I’m afraid you’re in for another edition of the Jeffrey Blog(tm) this week.  Kiera is very busily working on a new Sunday School curriculum and Friday night, in an attempt to lower her stress level, I innocently asked “What can I do to help?”
“Well…you could clean the bathrooms tomorrow, that [...]

Four Minutes

By Kiera Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
I have a confession to make.  My mind wandered during the sermon this morning.  It wasn’t that Pastor Jim’s words weren’t compelling — they were.  It was the fact that the sun was shining brightly, drawing my attention to the floor to ceiling cathedral-type window at the front of the church.  [...]

Cabin Fever

By Kiera Rich – KRich13@bellsouth.net
It finally happened.  After waiting for 18 months, it finally snowed in Atlanta.  Granted, the snow that I’m looking at out my window is definitely not the type of snow that my Colorado-native heart is used to.  However, snow is snow and I’m grateful to know that Atlanta has another season [...]