My father was a logger and a farmer. He grew up on a family farm and it was in his blood. You could say that logging was just another type of farming, harvesting trees as the crop. When I was growing up we had many gardens. …
Often in my prayer time, I consider people and situations that have left me feeling unsettled. More often than not God reveals to me that I am the problem and not the situation or other people. It really is the easy way out to play the…
I really debated with myself about writing this article as I don’t like politics or taking sides. If you’ve read “I Am Neither” (https://www.andrew-baldwin.com/2019/04/08/i-am-neither/) you know that I believe in being American, not being a party affiliation. That being said, let’s give this issue a whirl.…
AS a kid growing up seeing a lot of wildlife was somewhat a rare occurrence. I can never recall seeing any wild turkeys or foxes or coyotes and not that many deer either. I lived basically out in the middle of nowhere so seeing wild critters…
How often in life I have found that the things I have had to work at the most have been my greatest blessings. I suppose it has been this way even in the Bible as God pronounced that Adam would have to work, “Cursed is the…
WE were not an affluent family when I was a small boy. Toys were few and far between and most of our fun was had by using our imaginations and playing outside in nature. There was a pond behind the house complete with frogs and a…
I love technology. At least most of the time I do. And I hate technology just as much. Technology is at its best when it serves us. When it is at its worst, we serve it. We become slaves to our computers, our smart phones, our…
Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, I say that I am a technologist. It is kind of an odd term but fits me pretty well. I have made a career out of being on the leading edge of technology since I…
If there is one thing you should know about me, it is that I am self-employed. Taking days off is a hardship because when I don’t work, I don’t get paid. The result is that sometimes I don’t take vacations for years. Yes, years. The last…
We had neighbors when we were growing up. Well, we kind of had neighbors. Living way out in the country the closest neighbor was 100 yards (100 meters) down the road. The next closest neighbor was a quarter of a mile up the hill. When your…