Ken Martin’s Blog

The van got whacked. The story here. No one’s hurt, and it was plainly the uninsured motorist’s fault.

She won! Yay!

…with a lot of blog updates. Good stuff! He’s been scanning pictures and uploading video. He’s getting pretty good at this stuff.

Last episode, we left our heroes (my family) slumbering away their mediocre McDonalds in Louisville, KY. The next morning we raided the hotel’s free breakfast cereal counter - a legendary delight the kids remembered from last road trip; three kinds of cereal! As much as we want! Back into the van and away we went. 700 [...]

The last two weeks of August, we had a road trip. Our goal was to make it to South Carolina to visit my dad, and then down to Charleston for a couple of days. Two weeks… ahhhh… enough time to actually relax. I’ve had all sorts of things I wanted to post, but wasn’t sure how [...]

We went to the Star Wars exhibit at the Minnesota Science Museum a couple of weeks ago. Pretty cool stuff. They had some fun hands-on stuff; making maglev Lego cars and programming little robots. My camera wasn’t capable of catching it, but the detail in those models is really incredible. It was also fun to see [...]

Our house is still for sale and you should buy it! Follow the link and find out more!

The gospel of Mark has an interesting little structure. A whole bunch of the verses start with και, which is often translated “and” but can be, and often is, left untranslated since it’s just there to keep the story going from point to point. So, it’s something like “…and then they did this, and then [...]

I sat with family at a wonderful Thanksgiving. I sat late at night reading to an aged, dying family member. She passed twelve hours later. I sat at the wedding of a couple from church. I hardly know what to say.

Halloween was fun this year. We did our usual run up to Vadnais Heights, where the fire department has food and treats and clowns (not every day… just Halloween), and then we go through one of the neighborhoods there. Anna was a princess. Kenny was columbian coffee. Henry and Will were bears monkeys. But Jack, [...]