Janet and I grew up in Chicago. There is a saying there that if you don’t like the weather, just stay put. It will change in the next five minutes. And you know what? There is quite a bit of…
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I recently had lunch with my cousin, who is several years older than I am. We have done ministry work together for twenty five years or more. Dave has had his concentration in the field of financial stewardship and I…
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My mother was a wonderful cook, perhaps chef would be an even more fitting description of her skills. She had attended world class cooking schools and I was the beneficiary of much of her education. My childhood was filled with…
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Our dog Eva drinks from a water bowl that we keep in the laundry room next to her food bowl. It is elevated a little off the floor as we learned years ago that dogs can develop problems in their…
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I have always been a guy who is tied to his phone. In fact, I actually got my first landline phone back in the mid 1960’s when I was a young teenager. Dad said that if I wanted to talk…
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Back when I was 47 years old and still in the corporate world, I was driven to my knees in an effort to find a better way to lead our company. Janet and I prayed about it and we decided…
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Every once in a while, I run across a great feature article that I think is a great story to share with our readers. The basis of the article is that there is currently an initiative that one of the…
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This past weekend, our family did a post mortem on the “Big Cook” and folks were already looking at dates for the next one. Normally, we would get back on schedule and would undertake this massive event again in mid-September.…
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It’s Sunday evening and The Big Cook is over… Where did the last two days go? As I indicated in my last post, some of our family members were getting together to do one of our monumental cooks of pork…
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