I just finished watching an irate man spew venom at a lady in a CVS parking lot. It seems she was blocking a parking space he wanted. The sad part about this drama was there was both a car in front of her and a...
Snow had been falling steadily for seven hours and a foot of snow covered the ground. The wind was pushing tiny crystals of ice into the tiniest of cracks. Just before sundown a towhee along with a pair of cardinals and lots of juncos were...
Some days are just “ordinary” sorts of days. Actually though one person’s “ordinary” is another person’s “extraordinary.” If we had to go to work in the morning and do what someone else ordinarily does that could be pretty extraordinary for us. If you got to...
She was walking down the grocery story aisle talking to no one in particular. “I just hate spending my hard-earned money on food,” she muttered. Now what do you suppose she wanted to spend her hard-earned money on? Eating is rather important. However, it is...
I am sitting here looking at some pictures of outer space and feeling extremely insignificant. It seems that human efforts to see the end of the universe are destined to failure because the farther we see the more we see. It just doesn’t stop. I...
Ephesians 1 verse 3 Paul says something intriguing. God “has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ.” Surely inherent in this promise is a consideration of our maturity. Some of us are spiritual babes in understanding and others among us...
Amid the varied chords and arpeggios coming from my car radio I found myself humming Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Foster. Somewhere buried in the almost cacophonic jazz was that familiar melody. I was fascinated that amidst all of the notes being played the tread of...
If you live in Florida you might never know the truth about the postman. He or she does not come when the snow gets deep. I know this must come as a blow. It is like hearing for the first time as a child that...
We have almost three feet of snow in our yard with another foot coming tonight and tomorrow. That does not take into account the ten foot high mountain of snow at the end of the driveway pushed there by a nice man with a pickup...
The Self-Help book section at Barnes and Noble is impressive. There is everything there to help us transform ourselves from wimps to giants. No matter what deficiency we think we have, there is a book to help us conquer. We can develop seven healthy habits...