Good news this week: Jeny had her heart catherization and she was given a clean bill of health. She has a very manageable genetic heart condition with a very unmanageable name. In Mobile, we have the yard clean from the Read more…
Update: Several of you asked about Jeny. Her procedure is postponed until Monday because of Hurricane Sally. Neither Jeny nor her doctor are overly concerned about her heart. She has a place on her heart to be investigated. It may Read more…
The pastor of our small church has shingles. I was asked to give the sermon on Sunday. My creative juices are needed on that task so the blog is on the back burner for this week. We allow a few Read more…
Yellowstone: One of our sons told me I would enjoy Yellowstone, the television series. I did not watch it until recently. Our son was correct – Yellowstone is addictive. I was slow to begin watching it, because the series is Read more…
Difficult times: Today’s blog was very difficult to write. I always want to write something uplifting, but I faced the following: I sit in semi-isolation, amid political, social and economic turmoil. Two named storms are headed our way. When I Read more…
Dialectic Tension: I live in what I believe is called a dialectic tension. I believe I share a particular dialectic with many people. On the one hand is the growing awareness of the history of racial injustice in America and Read more…
In a well written and clever article in AL.com, August 2, 2020, Dan Carsen laid out the bad logic and incorrect reasoning we can expect to see in the election cycle—and unfortunately in many other areas of discourse. In my Read more…
We had a great break. We visited my brother and family in Nashville and my cousin and family in Festus Missouri. We took our food, ate in our car and felt safe. We did not see as many cars as Read more…
COVID is grinding on me. Sadly, this week I canceled my high school reunion scheduled for early October. It was to be our 60th. I have a good friend who studied reunions. The first 20 years, too many people are Read more…
The last two weeks I have had several technical issues with the blog site. Thanks to the technical expertise of Crystal Tosello they have been solved. She sent out the blog for last week — Blog 49: Hamster Wheel, Human Read more…