When I put my credit card in the gas pump, the pump told me to see the cashier. When I went inside and swiped my card it was declined. Instantly I could feel the lady looking at me as if I was some kind of...
There is a house in our neighborhood that is no longer a home. It has been sold, the previous owners are gone and no one has yet moved in to once again make it a home. It looks sad. There are no curtains or blinds...
We have talked about catchy advertising and our Christian need to pay attention to something we could use to promote our Jesus. We talked about Toyota’s “Let’s Go Places.” I got an email from a friend that reminded me of Hellman’s Mayonnaise’s “Bring Out the...
Before I was old enough to go to school my father would come home from school (he was a teacher) and play marbles with me. It wasn’t the traditional game where you had to knock marbles out of a circle. We had three small holes...
It was so sad. Lying by the side of the road, close enough to be run over, was Elmo. There he was bright red, with his orange nose, mouth agape and two big eyes looking terrified as we bore down upon him. Was he missing...
This afternoon we visited with Patty, a friend we had not seen for 35 years. When Patty graduated from the eighth grade her mother was ill and could not attend; my wife became a stand-in mom. My wife wore Patty’s mother’s white dress and stood...
I am so happy to report a restoration of my taste buds. I don’t have much of an appetite but at least what I do eat tastes. Restoration is a marvelous thing. So often we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. Adam and...
We spent the afternoon at an art museum. How interesting that some of the galleries were wonderful and filled us with awe while others were filled with junk. It is so true that one man’s treasure is another man’s trash. This is evident at yard...
I recently heard someone say that darkness is the absence of light. Light is something and darkness is nothingness. He went on to say cold is the absence of heat. Heat is something cold is nothingness. He continued on and said, “Evil is the absence...
In the strange esoteric world of quantum physics when two quantum objects become entangled the objects can spin in opposite directions at the same time. Yes. I know that is quite impossible in our three dimensional world. Minds brighter than mine (not yours) call this...