Drugs on the Sly
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
As if the televised political debates weren't dogfight enough, Rambo is back. According to a Time Magazine article by Joel Stein, Sylvester Stallone sought a little p...
Investing in People Futures
posted over 4 years ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
Realizing that retirement might be a good idea one of these days, and that even if Social Security survives longer than I do it won't be adequate to maintain the lifestyle to which I've become accustomed, I recently opened a brokerage account to p...
Remember the Tree
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
The story of the Nativity, though two millennia old, is really quite contemporary. Think about it: Joseph, a self-employed craftsman, is forced to take time off from work to travel to his ancestral home to ante up taxes to a bloated bureaucracy th...
Holiday Lights
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
No matter your holiday preference or practice, at this time of year when the days grow short, lights are apt to be focal in the celebration. What better time to consider how we can all shed some light on an issue that is before us constantly and t...
Regulated? Well....
posted over 4 years ago | 3 comments
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. - Constitution of the United States, Amendment II, ratified December 15, 1791
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Talking Turkey
posted over 4 years ago | 0 comments
This holiday season of traditional family gathering and parties among friends and coworkers reminds us that social networking used to revolve around face to face meetings, often over the dinner table. With the advent of the Internet and "social ne...
We Thank Thee, O Lord.
posted over 4 years ago | 1 comment
One of my all time favorite movies will be on AMC tonight: The Searchers. If you like Westerns in general, or John Wayne in particular, this is must see TV. This would be an overwhelmingly ...
Goodbye and Hello
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A dear acquaintance passed away at the age of 100. She had long been a minister's widow when I met her over thirty years ago while a college and seminary student. Always active in her church, she made a point of inviting the incoming students to w...
The Greatest Generations
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Walking in the shadows of the men who stormed the Normandy beaches on the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries led Tom Brokaw, then anchor of the NBC Evening News, to record a selection of brief personal chronicles of those who served and those who...
WAteR Between the States
posted over 4 years ago, updated 4 minutes later | 0 comments
From my house it's just a short walk to a small pond in our neighborhood. Overflow from the pond flows into a nearby creek that never seems to run dry. So even though we are in the most extreme drought on record, it's easy to dismiss the danger......
