Fact: I have not posted anything for almost three weeks. I just have not felt like writing and I have been too distracted by other things going on in my life. The Whole Truth: When I become distracted due to unsettling situations in my life I tend to ignore them. One way to ignore them […]Read Post ›
We visited our grandkids in Texas in February and found out that they are really into dinosaurs. Just about every picture they drew and a good number of books they read had at least one dinosaur. I learned to pronounce so many different names including Oviraptors, Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops, Brachiosaurus, Protoceratops and Parasaurolopus. I read and was told how […]Read Post ›
Saturday–it all started with a phone call at 6:01am from my son. Our daughter-in-law’s water had broken and could they drop off the three grandkids on the way to the hospital. Of course. We had planned for this, expected the call, and wanted to help any way we could with the birth of our 13th grandchild. […]Read Post ›
I think there are times when I take my world too seriously. I find it difficult to find a reason to just smile. It is not that I want to feel a lasting joy that spreads throughout my life. I just want to be able to take a little break from everything and smile. Some days it is […]Read Post ›
The longer I am around this earth, the more often I shake my head at how my mind works. The idea for this blog came to me while thinking about our schedule for this past Sunday and an article I saw regarding how improvised explosive devices, IEDs, have taken the place of conventional land mines in […]Read Post ›
I think we have the best Christmas tree of our time. It is the best because I can remember a number of years ago when I was still drinking and we could not afford a tree. My wife and kids actually had to construct a tree from some cardboard tubes. The kids seemed ok with it […]Read Post ›
I do not know about you, but I have a few unfinished writing projects just waiting to be finished – or more accurately waiting for this brain to process enough information for them to be completed. A number of years ago I started writing a collection of topical prayers for my grandchildren. I planned to […]Read Post ›
