This is my first newsletter. It is really a blog, but the word blog sounds so much like an intestinal obstruction that I prefer the term “newsletter.” I will not be sharing any news that is worthy of the New York Times or Wall Street Journal. I am calling my newsletter Backwards and Forwards. Twice a month I will share with you some thoughts, travel journals, excerpts from past articles and sermons and reflections—mostly lighthearted—about the lives we are living.