Recently, my son, a teenager who is quite dear to me, forgot that we were supposed to meet at a certain time. I traveled a good while to pick him up. He didn’t show up. In a later conversation, he said with regard to his error, “My Bad.”
Now, I know that this is a colloquialism […]
To place a ragged and gently moistened towel,
On the feverish brow of your child; To rub his back,
Until you both awaken, hours later, fever gone, Bathed in Sun’s rays.
To summertime fish in the light of a kerosene lantern,
Your sister only feet away, trying to make sense of meteors and love,
of what made us each […]
Tonight, at the end of a rather full and long day, Barb, I and our two Goldens, Jeffie and Jillie, went outside for a walk in our rather well-lit neighborhood.
In recent days, we went on a trip to Fort Davis, Texas and the Fredericksburg, Texas. There in Fort Davis we toured McDonald Observatory. It was […]
This past winter, I won a trip to Disneyworld through a sweepstakes on the Kim Komando Show, a nationally broadcast radio program about All Things Digital (It is, by the way, a wonderful program and resource for anyone trying to learn about computers, as well as those who are old hands). What stands out to […]
I remember the night I saw Close Encounters of the Third Kind for the first time. It was at the mobile home of a neighbor in the dark back country roads outside Chattanooga, Tennessee. I’m going strictly by memory right now but if it serves correctly, the beginning is marked by ocean liners that have […]
We in modern society are fond of complaining about the health care system. Indeed, complaints about modern health care are ubiquitous - like talking about the weather: “Was it raining when you came in? Darn if my hemorrhoids aren’t acting up again. You never see the same doctor these days.”
See what I mean? I know, […]
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This message was given at the Christmas service at the hospital where I am chaplain on the Thursday and Friday before Christmas.
Recently, I have been reading a book by Jewish theologian Carol Ochs. In this book she writes about the idea that we all learn much about God from the threads and meanderings of our […]
As a youngster, our family traveled often and occasionally for long periods of time. My dad worked in the Federal government and he got immense amounts of time off (or so it seemed). He would save up a lot of that time and every three years we’d take an extended vacation. I remember while traveling […]
Today, my fifteen year old son who is in the Civil Air Patrol, Black Sheep Squadron, rode in a small plane for the first time. He even flew the plane for a good while on each flight (he took two flights). He has learned so much since he started in the Civil Air Patrol, just […]