Monthly Archives: February 2024

Battle Creek Adventist serial or Adventist cereal? – part 1

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I don’t think one should visit Battle Creek without visiting the Adventist Village. Not only does this place play a substantial role in the development of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA) but it’s also here that we’ll see the invention …

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Bridges, sights, and sports

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I’d had a particular and personal set of reasons for my stay on Mackinac Island that began this brief sojourn into Michigan. Today, I reached the first event that sparked my extended stay beyond that first weekend – Maryland’s opening …

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Gang aft a-gley

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You might recognize the title of today’s entry from the famous Robert Burns poem To a Mouse – “The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft a-gley” and it seems to be an appropriate theme for this …

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