Recently, a single guy I know posted an link on Facebook to an article about marriage. The author was a woman who described the typical day with her husband, surviving their kids and life’s madness, and she came across very overbearing and controlling of the …
Read MoreDeath to Funerals
On a recent hike with one of my best friends I mentioned my distain for funerals and he nodded knowingly. You see, he turns 40 this year – and I’m only a year away – so deep conversations are more prone to brush up against …
Read MorePondering Your Worth…
I’m so far behind in updating this blog that no one can claim I deal in “current events”. But, I’ve been thinking about a major news event since it happened. And even though it quickly died out of the news cycle, it seemed to me …
Read MoreUnwelcome Extremities
I’ve been thinking about two news events which happened within 24hrs of each other on Christmas day 2009: Two men with deeply held religious beliefs illegally traveled into other countries to spread their messages. Neither succeeded, but both made news. And though the news coverage …
Read MoreLook Around…
I got inspired this week with a tiny little story idea. Too small to go anywhere else, but bigger than my average post here. Yet since it blends with the tone of my other musings, here you go… It’s a bit of slow burn, but …
Read MoreNo man left behind…
I’m suddenly awash in blog topics, but this felt like something I should write the minute I felt inspired. No, inspired is wrong. Challenged is a better word. I attend a gathering of Christians in the entertainment industry – an odd group who are way …
Read MoreCarried Away…
My wife and I went and saw “UP” on opening day. In 3-D no less. And I won’t fill this entry with all the reasons why Pixar is in a class by themselves, or why they are able to avoid the story stupidity and low-brow …
Read MoreMemories & Tributes…
I have a pretty small family. My father is an only child, and my mother had a younger brother. Steve, my uncle, died three years ago. And yesterday I was walking my dog behind a scruffy guy smoking a cigarette. He looked like my uncle. …
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