Dr. Sandra Glahn

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Extravagant Wealth

My husband had business in Houston and The Woodlands (a half hour north) yesterday and today, which was his birthday. So we three Glahns headed to Houston on Saturday afternoon to stay with our friends, Barney and Karen Giesen. As usual, we had a blast. We hung out in the pool, worshiped with a beautifully integrated bunch at City of Refuge Evangelical Presbyterian, and enjoyed a visit from Leigh McLeroy (author of Moments for Singles) on Sunday.

Yesterday morning Karen, Alexandra, and I headed to the Children's Museum of Houston, which was fantastic in and of itself, but was made all the better by the Alice in Wonderland exhibit (there until September 4). In the afternoon the delightful and artsy Karen Capper brought her grandson for a swim, which was win-win for kids and grown-ups. Then last night the Geisens invited Will Johnston, a Greek professor at Dallas Seminary's Houston extension, for dinner along with his wife Lisa, who, as it turns out, did her master's research at Oxford on Alice in Wonderland's creator. Lisa ended up writing a book on the subject, and has since written several children's books.

I have mentioned this before: some say there are three kinds of wealth. Others say there are seven. They include stuff like health and family and relationships and money. Regardless of how you categorize it, when it comes to friendships, old and new, we consider ourselves bazillionaires. (Sometime I will tell you about my friend, Virginia, who spent two nights in a chair in my hospital room and made me lunch daily for six weeks while I recovered from surgery. This week she fed the cats and watered the drought-parched lawn while we were away.)