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I am alive… and gladly so.

Click on the link below if you are interested in reading a synopsis of the grand story of my survival after very nearly dying three years ago to the day on Feb. 26,2009…after complications from brain surgery (accompanied by temporary paralysis on my right side and a complete inability even to speak) led to blood [...]

Words I spoke for my mom’s funeral eulogy on February 14, 2012

Eulogy for Mom (Reatha Eleanor Evans) February 14, 2012 As I have been reflecting these past two weeks as mom’s health began to take a turn for the worse I have been thinking…thinking about many things, but thinking mainly about what a long period of time has elapsed since mom was diagnosed with “dementia of [...]

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,600 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]

The most important posting I will ever write…and a Christmas greeting

(The following is a re-posting of a blog entry from December 2008…and it is still true…all of it!  My attention was drawn back to this posting because of Noel Piper including it in one of  ten or so articles she referenced in making the observation that Christmas is not a bundle of joy for many [...]

Mike’s Thanksgiving 2011 Top Ten List

Thanksgiving 2011 Top Ten List For the past 3 years I have made a list of the top ten things I have been thankful for in that particular year, beginning in November 2008, one month after the discovery of a large AVM (arterio venous malformation)  in the left frontal lobe of my brain. Thus began a [...]

Funny and Weird Word Searches Round 9

Well here we go again.  Round 8 of funny word searches that people have used to find their way to this blog…unedited for typos…just copied and pasted directly from the word searches.  I am particularly partial to the first one listed. mike evans blob arab man with camel mike evans says armagedden in 10 years [...]

Anticipating a Great Birthday Present!

The greatest birthday present in recent memory, other than another year, is surely one that I will receive on the 19th of September, 2011,   when I will have the three pins holding my right ring finger together surgically removed…the pins not the finger. I hope the bones in the finger will stay where they [...]

Ten Questions on the Ten Year Anniversary of 9/11

Ten Questions on the Ten Year Anniversary of 9/11 by Pastor Mike Evans 1.Where were you on September 11, 2001?  I will never forget it.  It was a Tuesday morning, my day off back then, and I was working on the front porch roof of our 117 year old house, stripping off four layers of [...]

Funny Word Searches Round 8 (May 8th-Aug. 30th 2011)

Well, I have gone 33 months straight (since Nov. 2008) with at least one blog posting and I didn’t think it was time for the streak to end.  So, before you now on the second to last day of the month is the eighth edition of Funny Word Searches…just a smattering of the various words and [...]

Funny word searches round 7

Hello again it’s me Mike.  I just thought you might find these words and word combinations interesting.  Somehow or another each of the individuals who did these word searches found their way to my blog.  Among the hundreds of words plugged into internet search engines these are the most interesting….since May 8, 2011.  Enjoy! attach [...]

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