We were waiting for a green light in two lanes that merged into one on the other side of the intersection. Since it is on my way to school often I am stopped there. After the light turns green people usually perform as taught in...
I have a problem. We stopped at a Friendly’s this evening and I got a Fribble, a large chocolate milkshake. Even before I got halfway to the bottom I filled up; can’t eat as much as I used to. The server gave me a cup...
It’s the last day of summer 2010. Autumn is knocking at the door. The hummingbirds have gone south. The males left about two weeks ago and the females just two days ago. It’s time for me to get the firewood in the garage. It’s also...
Friday night on my almost daily walk I was heading down our hill not watching where I was going. I was absorbed in reading my email on my iPhone. Hearing the sound of another’s footfall I looked up into the face of my neighbor walking...
We have amazing brains that compensate for our lack of physical perfection. As we age and begin to lose hearing often we miss the first sounds of words so our brains instantly search our vocabulary and fill in what our brains thinks should be there. ...
I have come to a new meaning for Jesus first major miracle – the water into wine. This is major because prior to this Jesus told Nathaniel that He saw him under a fig tree praying. That was a minor miracle. But back to the...
My wife and I decided to go to Denny's for breakfast this noon and play the "Who Went to Church Game." Fifty years ago this game was much easier because most of the men would be wearing a necktie, but that custom has waned making...
There’s a funny thing about humans. The kind of world we think is out there is the kind of world we see out there. One would think the latter would come first but quite to the contrary. We are the designers of our world. We...
We often hear people speak about having a sixth sense. There are things we know even though they are beyond our five sense’s capabilities. They are not empirical. We cannot weigh them or measure them in any manner. Yet they are real. No one would...
She was a contradiction, a walking irony. As she waited on me at the checkout counter I could not help but notice her lack of grooming which was accentuated by the title under her name: Beauty Consultant. She almost hurt my eyes. I looked around...