Mikel Berger’s Bailiwick

Gunnar James Berger arrived earlier this morning via C-Section at 1:16 am. He weighed in at 6 lbs 11 oz and is 21 inches long. He’s pretty tall and skinny (surprise, surprise) with long toes and fingers.

You can keep up with new photos that will be posted to Flickr. I also will be posting more [...]

Even though his due date was May 17, the little guy still hasn’t arrived. We’re currently waiting in the hospital for the first drug (Cervidil) to take affect. It could be up to 12 hours. If by the morning active labor hasn’t started, then we can go home until Friday morning. Friday morning we’ll come [...]

Dr. Albert Mohler has an interesting article about the culture shift that technology has caused.
Welcome to the world of the Digital Nomads. They can live and work almost anywhere, but tend to be concentrated in larger numbers in locales where the so-called creative class is also concentrated — in large metropolitan areas and in university [...]

A few of you may have noticed that I signed up for Twitter a few days ago. The main reason I did that was to test out the service to see if it would be helpful for a friend of ours, Tonya Small, that is living in South Africa working at a school for kids [...]

My grandpa passed away this past Saturday. Monday was the viewing and yesterday was the funeral. It was pretty neat to see so many people come out for a 93 year old man who has long outlived most of his generation.
I remember working on the farm with Dad, Grandpa, and my brother. In particular, I [...]

I saw on the news yesterday that the basketball coach at IUPUI coached barefoot in their game last Thursday. He did it to raise awareness for a charity that sends shoes to poor kids in Africa. Sounds like a great cause and a neat gimmick to get the word out. And it worked, more than [...]

Some friends of ours are in the process of adopting a child from Ethiopia. I’m testing out how to put a PayPal donation link in a WordPress.com blog for them. So don’t click on this link.
Testing the donation link
If you want to check out their story and/or donate to Ben and Janet head on over [...]

Kossuth Street Baptist Church had to cancel services today because of the snow. Since we were stuck in the house I went to church online.

The pastoral intern working with the youth at my church emailed me asking for my thoughts on Facebook for an article he is writing for the church’s newsletter. Below is the email I wrote up quick and sent him. If you’ve got any other thoughts, ideas, or resources let us both know by leaving a [...]

Despite what Ben thinks I don’t want a music-less society. It probably is because I’ve been hanging around with Ben too much that I think I now have a favorite hymn writer. That just sounds weird to me that I have a favorite hymn writer. I guess I always thought the songs in the hymnal [...]