by Dave Carlson | Aug 16, 2018 | Coincidence
My wife is a reseller on Amazon and eBay. She was sitting at the table when she told me she got an order from Golovin, Alaska. She had heard me talk about Golovin a lot over the years. I spent a week there in the summers of 1981 and 1982 teaching Vacation Bible... 
by Dave Carlson | Aug 16, 2018 | Coincidence
There was a group of 10 of us heading back to Michigan from Alaska. We’d driven up there on a mission trip to do Vacation Bible School and work on parsonages in different Eskimo villages. Was a great trip and we were ready to get home. Through some connection, we... 
by Dave Carlson | Feb 27, 2018 | Coincidence
A beach in Hungary is different than you and I normally expect. The beaches are actually grass and you use steps to walk into the water on Lake Balaton, one of the largest lakes in Central Europe. In the summer of 1987, I spent the summer with a team of people on Lake... 
by Dave Carlson | Feb 27, 2018 | Coincidence
A wedding album. Pretty innocuous thing. I was thumbing my way through it on a rainy afternoon when I saw a surprise. My wife and I were spending a weekend in Newport, Rhode Island, with her best friend, Carrie. Carrie pulled out their wedding album since Lori was one... 
by Dave Carlson | Feb 24, 2018 | Coincidence, Perspective
My home office could feel stifling so every so often I would go work at Panera when I needed to be around humans. The closest Panera was on the edge of a mall, but I normally didn’t go into the mall because I wanted to keep an eye on my computer. I don’t think I ever... 
by Dave Carlson | Feb 24, 2018 | Coincidence, Perspective
It was the summer of 1978. My brother and I printed out a bunch of flyers and put them in the mailboxes of people through our neighborhood. We got several customers for doing lawn cutting and yard work. I did a bunch of work for Bill that summer at a couple properties...