The Thrill Is Gone
Remember Fruit Stripe gum? Such lively flavor. And five different ones, not like the boring only-one-flavor-in-a-pack Hubba Bubba or Big League Chew. Plus you got seventeen sticks, not just five. Good...
View ArticleI Hate Everything But You
Celebrating Valentine’s Day today with my bride of a dozen years. Here’s one of my favorite songs: Derek Webb’s “I Hate Everything But You.” it’s been one of those kinds of days and i feel so out of...
View ArticleCelebrating My Twin Sister’s Birthday
Today my twin sister and I celebrate our birthday. Eight minutes before me she’ll be 34. Yep, for eight minutes she lived in this world without me—eight lonely minutes, I’m sure. Becky and I are...
View ArticleIrreconcilable Differences (Part 2) – I Do … Again
On Monday, I touched somewhat briefly on how divorce has affected me. But I could write a series of posts on divorce and its effect on a child, at least from a personal view—anything more extensive...
View ArticleSimplifying the Law
A couple weeks ago I found a website that offers free audio files. Not music, just sounds you might encounter in everyday life. I’ve used their sounds on my “Play Ball!” and “Tuning to True A440”...
View ArticleCrushes on a few Cindys
In seventh grade I had simultaneous crushes on two different Cindys. One was in history class and the other in English. I’m not sure why I’m remembering them. Except, I was thinking about how I wasn’t...
View ArticleNeeding more time to revamp my image
On Monday I asked the question: How do you want to be remembered? If later today on my commute to the office a car failed to yield—why am I blaming someone else? maybe I will have failed to yield—and...
View ArticleDunking My Baby
UPDATE — Added some new pics (below) that a professional photographer took of all the baptisms. One quite simply melts my heart. What a wonderful day yesterday! It was long and exhausting, but it...
View ArticleA Friend to the Lonely
I read a book awhile back that I’d initially written off as heretical, one that I feel like I’ve mentioned before. I suppose if I did a search on my own site I might discover it. As it turned out, when...
View ArticleWalking in the Dust of the Rabbi Jesus
A little over a decade or so ago I read a book that transformed my view of the Bible. The book was Philip Yancey’s The Bible Jesus Read. By then I’d read two of his other books — Yancey’s, not Jesus’...
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