Instrumental Reflections #5

This weeks Instrumental Reflection is a song I wrote in college at East Texas State University. It’s kind of a theme and variation type song and it’s called Autumn Leaves. I hope you enjoy.
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Memorial Services for a Friend

For the past few days this site has been hit by people typing in keywords looking for information about Rusty Watkins. I assume you are searching for information about the memorial service. First of all a personal note, I cannot remember being in youth, or being a youth director without Rusty. Though we were not [...]

My Five -Posts Since August

I’ve been writing posts for this blog since August of 2008. So after 9 months I wondered what my most popular posts are… well I wonder no longer cause here they are. Apparently so far a lot of people are looking for free backgrounds. Tune in later for my 5 favorite posts.
Past Year (Since August)
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A Wednesday Funny

Working at any job I used to think the worst days were Mondays. But I have learned that Wednesdays are the days I tend to dread more. Yesterday my friend Russ Bowlin sent the entire staff this video. Apparently his goal was to inspire, and encourage us all this tough point of the week. I [...]

Merry Christmas To All

This Makes Me Laugh Everytime

We were sitting in our living room watching the Polar Express on tv. The part came up where one of the characters was having his beard pulled and he sounded like a Caribou. 3 of our dogs could care less.. but one dog was at least a little curious.

Curious Dog from russell martin on Vimeo.
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Which Books Would You Recommend?

Our church is starting a bookstore and we are in the process of finding which books we should include. I thought I would ask my twitter and my facebook friends for their suggestions so I posted this. “If you were to recommend a book for a church bookstore what would it be?” Here were the [...]

I Missed My 100th Post

Apparently I missed one of my first milestones in the life of Fork In The Road Blog. Two posts ago was my 100th blog post. I guess that would make this 102. In this brief time of I have learned much about blogging and have apparently written some things that others have learned from and [...]

A Thankgiving Funny

Happy Thanksgiving to Everyone.
This funny was sent to me by Miranda.
Last year at Thanksgiving, my mom went to my sister’s house for the traditional feast. Knowing how gullible my sister is, my mom decided to play a trick. She told my sister that she needed something from the store.
When my sister left, my mom took [...]

National Youth Workers Convention- Part 1

This weekend I am attending the National Youth Workers Convention in Nashville TN. I have attended many of these events in the past years, especially when I was the youth director, but now since I have moved into a different role, (I am a volunteer and work with the youth band) I am viewing this [...]