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balance
As a follower of Christ and as an embedded undercover missionary within the poverty culture, I’ve always sought the balance between wealth and poverty. Between enjoying what you have and giving what...
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dear first baptist of abilene
Dear First Baptist Church of Abilene,I am so sorry to hear of the vandalism that happened to your property a few nights ago. Like the six or seven other downtown businesses, you must feel violated and...
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In response to the previous post, former fair mother city resident Agent S emailed this to me:Thanks for asking tough questions and holding people accountable. And for being my Abilene informant. I get...
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scouting trip: report
Agent Wife, the three offsprings and I recently returned from scouting the landscape of our future assignment from headquarters.You heard it here on the agent b files: we are moving to Canada. Lord...
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so long frieda
In the ever continuing examples of closing doors on our assignment in the fair mother city...The sudden departure of Frieda Sanford.About two weeks ago, Frieda announced that she and her daughter...
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contemplations
Sometimes it is difficult for me to continue communicating via reports on the world wide waste-of-time through a blog outlet. Although several real-life events limit my commitment to such an endeavor...
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fine line
I believe my Canadian immigration status is progressing as fast as it can. We still haven’t mailed in our applications that have been worked on for over a month. I have jumped through every hoop: been...
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battlefield
If there was ever a week from hell on the job site, this past week would be one.I try not to seek out demons behind every bush and/or activity in life as my charismatic church days have taught me. But...
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least likely
Recently, I built a deck for the current flip house project of mine. I've never built a deck. I have assisted in some similar projects, but never have I gone solo on anything this large alone.For...
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adios, forty-nine cent
My fast-living, heavy drama, and Eminem stunt double coworker Forty-Nine Cent is no longer with us. He broke his parole a few weeks ago in a way that would be impossible to hide from the...
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new assignment: progress report
My Canadian immigration status is progressing quite well.Back in August we mailed in a package of papers as thick as a dictionary. One month to the day we received a response from immigration officials...
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wrapping up the final chapter
Agent Wife recently wrote a letter to both The Tiger and The Bulldog in prison. They are in the same cell block and should be released within a month of each other next summer.They both wrote back....
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the testimony files
I guess it's no news here that we are receiving an assignment change from headquarters and moving up north. But this week I received our passports back and mine is officially stamped with an immigrant...
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one slip
Had a rare call to duty today during my work hours. Obi-Wan slipped into some diabetic trance due to lack of eating breakfast.Agent Wife called me this afternoon after Obi-Wan's housekeeper called her...
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one by one
After my record speed immigration status, I'm not going to act surprised as the pieces of our uprooting and overall assignment change falls into place one by one.First, some dear friends of our the...
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long journey
Lord willin' and the creek don't rise, my second and most difficult house flip project is scheduled to close next week. I never envisioned the number of hurdles and road blocks that would be thrown my...
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towards the end
Like much of the US, the fair mother city has endured the coldest, wettest, and possibly longest winter in the 20 years I've lived here. I don't know if it's over yet, but we've actually had some nice...
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ain't over til it's over
In the twilight days of our assignment here in the fair mother city within our undisclosed neighborhood we call home, a new neighbor need has arisen.Mandy is a 24-year old wife of a military man and...
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last hurdle
Although I do not have a contract or any signed paperwork as of this writing, our home will be sold before we depart to the new assignment up north.Almost a month ago the Jedi Master put me in contact...
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Junior and Johnny
Recently I have begun a new stage in my parenthood and undercover calling.Our children are not yet school age. So they have yet to be thrown to the wolves that is "the world". You know, learning cuss...
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