Vaya con Dios, Razzman

Please keep Raz Shafer in your prayers this coming year. He called to say he leaves tomorrow for Hillsdale College in Michigan. That's a LONG way from Texas. Same country, different world. While I've no doubt Raz will make friends no matter where he goes, it remains that he'll have to adjust to no Willie & Waylon, no Bar BQ, no real Tex-Mex... and young women with northern accents who will undoubtedly flip over his Texas drawl and his boots... mercy, do pray for him.

I suggested he start a new blog so we can keep up with him better... and so he can begin developing his base to run for president. ;-) He promised he would.

(Photo taken May 2005, picking around on Claire's otherwise rather lonely mandolin during a weekend at our house)