In a waiting room

I hate to wait.

Invariably I’m the guy who gets stuck in what I thought was the shortest check out line at the supermarket and then watched as the cashier needs to change the tape in the register, or the 2 items the person in front of me needs “a price check on isle 4!”... Read More

Christmas “Magic”

My neighbor across the street stopped by the other day to ask how my nephew with Duchene’s Muscular Dystrophy was doing. Last week my nephew faced a life threatening situation because the muscles in his throat that allow him to swallow food stopped working. I told my neighbor that he pulled... Read More

Charlie Brown

It’s tradition for us to watch Charlie Brown on television at Christmas time.  We own the DVD, but there is something more fun about catching it on TV instead.

Oh, Charlie, I can so relate to your frustration with the commercialism that we’ve attached to Christmas. Finding the... Read More

Batteries and Jesus

A few days ago I helped my daughter purchase her first car…an older used Toyota Camry. Everything was going well until I got the call that her car wouldn’t start. The battery was dead and it needed a jump.

After driving to where she worked and jump starting the car, I took... Read More

Mistletoe

My daughter and her friend are upstairs baking Christmas cookies. Special treats during the holidays are a tradition for us and we look forward to the delicious taste of buttery, sugary delights.

This caused me to wonder about other Christmas traditions. Mistletoe, for instance. Standing... Read More

Who are you?

Certain songs tend to stay with and get me to thinking. Lately, I’ve been struck by the following lyrics from an older song,
“Who are you? Who, who…who, who?
The words strike me as more than a line from a catchy tune by the British band The Who. The... Read More