The last 12 months should have made for a very good year. They didn’t. For those last 12 months, both of my children and their families have been stateside. The last time that happened — five years ago — Nicole and I made it up to Northern Virginia on four different occasions, spending a good …
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It’s amazing the lack of understanding people have about the …
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One of the funniest jokes by comedian Jim Gaffigan was when he said he thought it must have been very difficult to find suitable birthday presents for Jesus. When one of his followers gives him a pair of socks, Christ responds with “Socks. These will go great with my sandals. What am I, German?” It …
EINSTEIN WAS GERMAN, BUT NIXON LOOKED WORSE AT BEACH Read More »
Until I met Nicole at age 42, I was never much of a traveler. Vacations nearly always meant visiting family, although there were a couple of short trips in 1977 when I was living in Austria with my first wife. We did two weeks with a Eurail pass in the summer and a week in …
“America has become a cruel and vicious place. We reward the shallowest, the dumbest, the meanest and the loudest. We no longer have any common sense of decency. No sense of shame. There is no right and wrong. The worst qualities in people are looked up to and celebrated. Lying and spreading fear is fine …
Bill Cosby wasn’t paroled. He wasn’t granted an early release from prison because he was wrongly convicted. And while he continues to insist he did nothing wrong and should not have been convicted, nothing really changed it that respect, Still, Cosby walks free today. There is a sadness about the case that will resonate for …
COSBY WALKS FREE, BUT HE’LL NEVER BE LOVED AGAIN Read More »
“… with no cats in the yard …” It has been a very strange year as I look back at the halfway point. Except for spending a week in April in Virginia to see family, we haven’t gone anywhere that wasn’t necessary. Nicole and I were both fully vaccinated by late March, but for the …
It was the autumn of 1970, and I was trying to recover from my first broken heart. The first half of the year had been wonderful. Beginning in December 1969, as I came of age, I was involved with a girl for the first time. We went together all through the winter and spring, and …
Jesus wept. It’s the shortest verse in the Bible, and it’s intended in part to show Christ’s humanity. In recent years, it has also become a symbol of extreme frustration or annoyance. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if Jesus occasionally weeps to see some of the things that are being said and done in …
CRAZY EVANGELISTS SEEM TO LOVE UNDERGROUND TUNNELS Read More »
Wellington, Ohio? I spent 10 years of my childhood living in Ohio, and I never heard of a town called Wellington. It’s a village of 4,802 people in north central Ohio, roughly 20 miles south of Lake Erie. It’s about 50 miles from Crestline, a town of about the same size where my grandparents lived. …
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