My watch battery died. Now I have to advance the minute hand manually. It pretty much takes up my whole day. This has given me a greater appreciation for people in the old days, before there were time-savers like batteries. It’s no [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
According to God's Word, there are people who have died who are now walking around on earth. In fact, you might have one or two in your home right now. What's that sound in the basement? Some might call them zombies, and some might call the [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Living next door to a funeral home tends to remind one of his mortality. So it’s going to be embarrassing if, after over nine years of such reminders, I kick the proverbial bucket without clarifying some things regarding my departure. First, a [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I remember hearing several years ago that a few drivers in Virginia reported their vehicles had been struck by crab apples thrown by a band of roaming monkeys. It was either that, or it was a band of roaming crabs throwing apples at Virginia monkeys [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Last Christmas, my lovely wife, Darla and I decided to buy a gift that would benefit us both. I rejected her first idea, which was a one-way ticket for me to Timbuktu, on the grounds that it was unclear exactly how such a trip would benefit me. &nbs [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Daylight Savings Time is misnamed. They should call it Sleep Losing Time. It seems like The Central League of Clock Keepers of America (CLOCKsA) always picks the least convenient time to make us turn our clocks back----Sunday mornings at [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
I don’t recall having volunteered to single-handedly prevent America’s forest fires. I’m willing to do my part, of course, as I care about Bambi, Thumper and their woodsy friends as much as the next guy raised on Disney movies. But as I told m [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
Why would a King, in an act of mercy, sovereignly pardon a criminal sentenced to death, and entrust to him an inestimable and inexhaustible treasure, with instructions to freely give it away? Why would he not, instead, entrust it to mighty messengers [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
When I was a child, our family received a wonderful present every year from Dad’s sister in London, an aunt we children had never met. A week or two before Christmas, something remarkable would happen. A box full of luscious Belgian chocolates [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
People tell me they remember their kindergarten teacher, and kindergarten friends. I have no recollection of kindergarten at all. This used to trouble me until my parents let it slip that I didn’t go to kindergarten. Apparently you had to be f [ ... ][ abbreviated | read original blog ]
