Author: Teddy

The other day my wife and I were unpleasantly surprised (can I say horrified?) to find a bat-gone-crazy flying around our living room. I will have to tell you that […]

Life is filled with reflections of childhood memories. Many of those memories are kept alive by adopting them into our own family traditions or pastimes. Fair Haven Beach State Park, […]

A short time ago the Mars Hill Network staff and board members gathered together for a staff-board picnic. One of our board members graciously opened up his home on Oneida […]

My daughter Janelle a few years ago developed an extreme interest in food. No, she did not begin consuming everything in her path, but began researching different methods of farming. […]

Water sports. They have really taken off in the last decade. My living in the Finger Lakes and just south of Lake Ontario makes public water pastimes pretty regular, if […]

Here we are another Independence Day holiday. We’re to be celebrating our nation’s birthday, liberation from the tyranny of English rule. We’re to be waving the red, white, and blue…”Old […]

  I was thinking this afternoon about a slogan that we use often here at Mars Hill, “seriously Christian and ministering life”.  I paused and let the word “seriously” sink […]

My neighborhood is facing a menagerie transformation. Though I live in the city of Auburn, not far from the Owasco River bank, we have an invasion of wildlife creating a […]

We all have different ways of expressing our joy or happiness. I don’t quite know what breaking into ones “happy dance” is…but I can pretty much imagine! I know “jump […]

Angle Irons. You may not recognize what they are in the moment, but you see them every day…and we rely on them. During a recent drive I noticed a flatbed […]