Ahh, the Olympics! That great quadrennial celebration of dedication, fortitude, drama, and patriotism! I love the Olympics. Unfortunately, I have not had much time to watch them this year. I did, however, get to have a conversation last night, though, that got me all caught up on what’s been going on. But it also got […]
How are those New Year’s resolutions going? If you’re like most people, they didn’t last long. Most people fail in their resolutions. So, don’t feel too bad. After all, you can save paper by just making the same resolutions next year! My dad shared a quote with me recently that I think he found on […]
The title looks like clickbait, but it’s not. Seriously. These three questions will change your life (if you let them): What is the most important time? Who is the most important person? What is the most important thing to do? Those questions, and how you answer them, will go a significant way towards determining the […]
I want to tell you about the two paths to success. But, first, let me make a wild guess: you made one or more New Year’s resolutions. You may have made them intentionally, writing them down, framing them, and hanging them where you’d see them every day. Perhaps you’re not that serious. You just cobbled […]
“It doesn’t take long for everything to go wrong.” You could be forgiven if that is your initial thought when reading the Bible and starting in Genesis. It is a thousand-page book and everything is broken by page three. It was off to such a good start, too. Genesis 1: God creates everything and everything […]
… “Why do you even let people see you with that drunken whore!” The exclamation burst from taut lips with an explosive, yet strangely precise, force: like a demolition charge carefully placed to produce exactly the intended destruction and no more. The eyes above the lips flashed intensely in the harsh white light of the […]
Thanksgiving. A day dedicated to two quintessentially American things: football and overeating. Oh, and being thankful. More on that in a moment. Thanksgiving is also the time wherein the nuts from every limb of the family tree can come together for calm, rational, even enlightened conversation on non-controversial topics like politics, religion, and the NFL. […]
