…is love, sweet love… It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone. (by Hal David and Burt Bacharach – 1965) The…
I have now written more than 1550 posts and I have come to follow a process for writing. Rarely, if ever, do I try to come up with a topic for the evening. In fact, I just wait and experience…
This week, on June 2nd, marks 42 years since the death of my father back in 1978. And tomorrow, June 5th, is the 42nd anniversary of his funeral and burial. I have written about Dad many times, and how I…
The last several months have been unlike anything that we have seen in most of our lifetimes. We have socially distanced, washed repeatedly, isolated ourselves in our home and adjusted to all sorts of protocols that have never been forced…
It was one year ago today that Jill and our grandson, Drew, moved back to Indiana from Oklahoma. Janet and I had assumed that we would no longer have all our children within minutes of our home when Jill made…
It’s amazing to me when I consider all the teaching opportunities that we, as adults, have to impact our younger generations. Several days ago, our local car wash opened up again and started doing car interiors. Since it has been…
Today is Mother’s Day, 2020, and it is unlike any Mother’s Day that any of us have ever experienced. That’s because we are approximately eight weeks into quarantine from the coronavirus and this social isolation is getting kind of old…
The current pandemic has brought out all sorts of things that most of the population never thought about before our current issues with the coronavirus. We have never really thought of social distancing and the prospect of changing the way…
When my brothers and I were young boys, we tried everything under the sun to get our way when we wanted something from our parents. I don’t know that we were so much different than any other boys we grew…
Several days ago, on April 22nd, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Each year we designate a day to really heighten awareness of the environment and the world that we live in. In conjunction with this day, there…