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Seeing Front Royal Through Dad’s Eyes
My father spent a day exploring Front Royal with me following the loss of his wife. Together, we visited community landmarks, met remarkable people, and discovered that the town’s greatest strength isn’t its places, but the relationships that connect them. Read More
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Dial ‘I’ for interactive: New exhibit celebrates 150 years of communication
Northern Virginia Daily: Highlights the Restoring the Signal exhibit at Stone Branch Center for the Arts, which explores vintage communication technology through interactive telephones, storytelling, oral histories, nostalgia, and community participation, centered on 150 years of communication history. Read More
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Turning Memorization Into A Puzzle
While learning to recite passages for Freemasonry, I built a flash-card generator that turns text into puzzle pieces for memorization. The open-source tool now helps anyone reconstruct speeches, historical documents, or study passages while learning structure, cadence, and meaning. Read More
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Where Lodge, Community, and Life Intersect
A week of courthouse paperwork, lodge leadership training, community service, civic conversations, and unexpected moments of fellowship reveals how Masonry often intersects with everyday life. Most meaningful lessons come not from ceremony, but from simple acts of service and brotherhood. Read More
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Two Dinners and a Gospel-Singing Camel
Today brought a clear head, a raspy voice, and the possibility of two dinners in one night—proof that fellowship comes in many forms. Between bronchitis, translation experiments, and a gospel-singing camel, midweek life feels wonderfully unpredictable and full of grace. Read More
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From Falls to Fixes: Why I Insisted on Immediate Repair of the Senior Center Floor
WE DID IT! The Senior Center floor is fixed! But this was a fight for safety. After two seniors fell and the floor continued to worsen, I fought to address this issue sooner. See the video and read why this community win matters so much to me. Read More
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Puzzles, Ribbons, Faith, and History
Many happenings: Ribbon cutting, Freemasons, Robbie Burns, Braille, Cancer Free Sister, Faith, Laser Puzzles, Tokens for hot meals, Street Organ, Research, Digitization of Historical Records, Rural Broadband, and Samuels Public Library. Read More
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Maker, Personality, Faith, and Library
A recap over the past two weeks of setting up a maker space workshop, finding old photos, digitizing a school play, transcribing old documents, core memory, selling a vehicle, making braille letters, getting a phd, reflecting on childhood faith, and latest developments at the library. Read More
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Reflections on Faith, Music, and New Beginnings
In this post, I reflect on the contrasting experiences between the religion I grew up with and the church I attend today. I also share updates on my piano journey with Simply Piano, ongoing battery issues with my iPhone Xs Max, my recent Royal Arch Mason initiation, and developments at the library. Read More
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From Magic Tricks to Masonic Service: My Clowning, Library, and Community Adventures
This month, I’ve juggled practicing magic tricks for my clown persona, renewing my CPR certification, and supporting my Masonic lodge’s charitable activities. I’ve also been working hard to maintain my Little Free Library, engaging with the Sons of the American Revolution, and addressing the challenges at Samuels Public Library. Read More