Last night I was doing what I had been intending to do for the last week—I affirmed each member of our family as we sat around the dinner table. And it was hilarious! I don’t suppose that’s how I thought it would be but it turned out to be a thing that cracked us up. [...]
I know a really neat high school student in our church. Recently she was spending the weekend with a friend and visited that friend’s church. Early the following week I received a text that she’d like to speak to me about the message.
She said, “The preacher taught that when you get far from God you [...]
I got affirmed yesterday. I don’t mean that someone paid me a compliment or said something flattering. I was actually, meaningfully and deeply affirmed. Bill was the one to offer the affirmation. And the timing couldn’t have been better. There are a few areas in my job that I haven’t [...]
This has been a bad mental health week for me. If you have read this blog for a time you know that I am bi-polar and for the last few years have struggled through the ups and downs that come with this illness. I have been blessed for the last few years to be very [...]
I think about the kids I know of various ages that have been told (by friends and influencers) that one aspect of their person is infinitely more important than another so they latch on to that one thing, draw their identity from it and give short shrift to the rest of who they are [...]
On Saturday my 10-year old daughter Audrey got up before I did. Apparently she turned on the coffee pot and when I came down the stairs she was sitting in a chair in the family room drinking a cup of that coffee. The way that she was sitting and the fact that she [...]
It’s been several weeks now since I returned from the eleventh annual Ernest Borgnine Memorial Music Appreciation Society weekend. I know. Odd. Strange. But way cool. A long way back about fifteen of us, all good friends and intense lovers of music, decided we would get together several times a year to play our favorite [...]