Devotional

Well, today marks another anniversary in my life - and as the title of this blog implies, it was on this date, May 2nd, in 1979, that I had my first surgery - I was 26 and scared to death.…

I'm sitting here tonight, after midnight, and I am, as they say, dog tired. We spent the evening helping Kristin as she is recovering from her surgery earlier in the week, and then I started thinking about the funeral service…

The last several days have been filled with all kinds of emotions. There were many of them - the final days of Roger Johnson, finding out that Kristin needed surgery, the excitement of our daughter Jill and grandson Drew visiting…

I don't usually tell the end of the story first - but tonight I am going to. Because while the ending is sad, in quite another way, it was...... well, amazing! So here it is - I got the call…

The clock just struck midnight - more correctly, all four of our clocks that chime just struck midnight. I just walked in from spending the evening with Arlene Johnson and my friend Roger, who entered St. Vincent hospice this afternoon.…

It's been a quiet day today, Easter 2011; Janet and I spent the day alone. Don't get me wrong - if you have followed this blog for any length of time, you know that we enjoy each other's company and…

For many reasons, this has been a sad week -  the illness of Roger (see yesterday's post) and watching his family deal with the seemingly inevitable conclusion to a long fight with cancer; and then today, the father of Pam,…

Janet and I just returned home from visiting our friend Roger in the hospital. I wrote about him and his fight with pancreatic cancer in a blog entitled "He Ain't Heavy - He's My Brother" on March 12th. I have…

Well, it's April 15th, and unless the 15th falls on a Saturday, Sunday or federal legal holiday, it is Tax Day - when our tax returns are due. But oddly, this year, none of the above situations has occurred, yet…

I went to the dentist today. I think I have twenty four crowns and eight veneers, so you might think that this is a scary visit every six months for my check-ups. Those of you who have been following this…