Sometimes a season leaves you, subtly. Perhaps it’s annoyed at some level, were it possible, that its inconspicuous retreat falls in the spotlight of headline barkers and conversation starters. Sometimes it’s done its thing, served its purpose, and every so quietly fades into a crowd of days gone by. Sometimes a season lingers. Clumsily, begrudgingly,… Read more »

Four years ago this hour, this night, I was spent. Just plain gone. I felt an exhaustion I’d never felt, a weight that was pulling me apart emotionally. My dad was gone. He had died in the early hours of the morning. My head, by now, was on a pillow, my son snoozing at my… Read more »

The car was packed, wife and kids buckled in and ready to head home. I stepped back in the house for ‘one last check’ to make sure we hadn’t forgotten any Hot Wheels, earbudes or toothbrushes. As I did, I sneaked in one more goodbye before we hit the road for home. I sat on… Read more »

Today I came home to news that four baby robins were found in our yard. Two were still alive in a makeshift nest my daughter and son built in a cardboard box. I buried the other two. I can’t tell you how this unexpected situation just brought a flood of emotions over me all evening…. Read more »

“Sometimes I wish I was born in another time, long long time ago…” In the course of a year, I have lost two lovely aunts and two dear uncles in death. In November, my brother-in-law died. He was only 49. My parents have been more burdened with bad health, but by God’s grace they keep… Read more »

How I did it: 1. Water only. No sodas or sugary drinks. This was hard at first when going out to eat, but (a) we don’t go out as often and (b) when I do, I drink water and live to tell about it. (I did have an occasional semi-sweet tea on weekends.) 2. 20+ minutes… Read more »

NOTE: My thoughts below were written in response (and quite on the fly, actually) to an article stating that in DC Comics, Superman is going to renounce his US citizenship – removing “the American Way” from his stance. Whatever. When I saw the last Superman movie “the American Way” was replaced with “Truth, justice, and… Read more »

Atheism is a religion… Its God is self. Its Messiah is random chance. Its Spirit (its guiding force) is time. Its Bible is that all truth and morality is subjective. Its heart is self-centeredness. Its soul does not exist. Its mind is that intelligence arose from non-living matter. Its strength is that the strong subjugate… Read more »

Now cometh November’s bitterest winds and rains, Ending autumn’s sweet colors from its first weary dawn, Yet thirty days hence, amid winter’s birth pains, I shall at last bid thee to ‘get off of my lawn.’   Then deep in the darkening days of December, As cold graying skies loom over year’s end, Perhaps with… Read more »

        Saturday April 18, 2009     Son, It’s a quarter to 10 as I write. Mom is rocking you to sleep and Liddy is getting ready to bed. (Her bedtime ritual, of course, includes spending a few moments in front of the mirror acting out something quite imaginative.) You’re one today…. Read more »

“I love my country, but I fear my government.” I don’t know who coined that phrase. I’ve heard it for decades. It reflects a conscious awareness that the government can easily become corrupt and interfere with the God-ordained freedoms of man. I use this as my status today to hopefully bring some perspective to our… Read more »

Never mind evolutionism, humanism and relativism. If there’s one thing people are slow to accept it’s the idea that Jesus really died and was really resurrected. Some say he just died and that was it. Others say he faked his death and, well, “got better” after going through that little dust-up with Pilate. Paul (you… Read more »