Our daughter, Jill, called me earlier this week and announced that she was stuck in a parking lot and her car wouldn’t start. She had just done some shopping and when she returned to her vehicle, the battery was dead….
Chris was one of my best friends growing up in grammar and high school. We had similar interests, were both at or near the top of our class in grammar school and would frequently stay over at each other’s homes….
I’m not much of a technology guy. In fact, I used to pride myself that I was one of the only people I knew who got through most of the 1980’s and into the 1990’s without computers in our business….
Tomorrow is Andrew’s birthday. I remember nine years ago, when he turned 30, I wrote about the Levite priests and how they began their official time of service at the age of thirty and then served in their priestly capacity…
This past April, we suffered some significant damage at our home as the result of a hail storm. We have insurance and things will be okay, but I have spent the past month or so working with a brick company…
This year, more than ever before, I saw the divisiveness of our country on the 4th of July more than ever before. Many towns, cities and counties cancelled their formal fireworks displays yesterday and have modified their laws to allow…
This Saturday, we will celebrate the 244th anniversary of the founding of our country. Unfortunately, this holiday will be unlike others we have had since the Declaration of Independence was adopted in 1776. As a nation, we are struggling with…
I was reading an interesting article about creatures of the deep that can be seen only by using a deep sea sub that can travel to exceptional depths – observing things that have rarely been seen before. On one such…
Today, our oldest daughter, Kristin, celebrated a birthday. How I remember the day that she was born! Janet was in labor for almost 36 hours and finally at 12:32 p.m. on June 25, 1975, Kristin arrived. I was there in…
Once again, it’s Father’s Day. It’s been a somewhat strange week and I have actually gone back and read some of my posts from prior years on the topic – it’s been a part of my remembering years past, which…