Outside the Rat Race

For the second time in recorded history the Parry and Furlo clans headed over to the Oregon coast for a good ol' fashion camp out ( here...

Jessi and I kicked off our next big project last week. We are going to complete re-grade both our front and back yards. We talked about it b...

One of my favorite iPhone apps is simply named Bible and is created by YouVersion.com . It is exactly what you would imagine - a Bible. I r...

I've written before our finances and how to manage it . This talks more about the spending side. Jessi and I recently celebrated our se...

July was crazy! I don't know what happened. Starting the summer it didn't seem like we would be that busy, but somehow we kept addin...

Every once in a while something comes along that really fires me up. The movie Serendipity is probably the worst of them all. Fifteen minut...

The start of this month I got a nice surprise: I'd be traveling to Germany during the World Cup finals. I was super excited and I must s...

HP has been sponsoring a shape-up program for the last 12 weeks. We report our steps and minutes exercised onto a online form. There's l...

View Larger Map I said this month would be crazy and so far it has been. First up is a camping trip Jessi and I took. We went up to Little ...

Wow - another month! It has definitely been action packed for us and July will be even busier! Thanks so much for reading and allowing us to...

I am really enjoying this year's World Cup. When possible I make every effort to watch the game. There's just something so exciting ...

If you're into sports, this app is for you. ESPN's ScoreCenter does exactly what you'd think it does: it gives score updates fr...

After reading The Fine Art Of Small Talk , I decided to try Debra Fine's follow-up book The Fine Art Of The Big Talk . Big talk is signi...

I often get asked about how to find a job. As such, I've done research, learned from personal experience and others. From that, here...

I'm trying out yet another series. This one is a monthly recap. I'm planning on sharing things we've done and then share a few i...

This last weekend I had the opportunity to participate in something truly unique: Meat Retreat. This is an event put on by our church where ...