Devotional

Last week, our middle grandson was sick with whatever it is that is going around… You know the stuff… headache, nausea, cough, sore throat and some sort of stomach virus. In fact, I am aware of a number of folks…

Earlier this week, the most famous dog show in the world took place - the Westminster Kennel Club show in New York City. This is the 149th showing of this prestigious event and it just seems to keep getting better…

Three-Peat… fourth Super Bowl in six years! Are they destined to do something that has never been done before? I was watching several of the Kansas City Chiefs players being interviewed and they were talking about the short ten minute…

I received a notice this morning that the local Ace Hardware, where I have shopped for 40 years, has a new smoker ambassador. These probably doesn’t mean much to many of you, but I have known the owner of the…

I’ve always been a phone guy… I remember when touch tone took the country by storm and we no longer had to use rotary phones to connect to one another. We could just push a sequence of buttons and that…

I’m sitting here at the office of Janet’s rheumatologist waiting while Janet has her monthly infusion of her Rheumatoid Arthritis meds. Thankfully, although she has suffered for years and has many different treatments, her doctors have finally landed on a…

As many of you know, last July, our dog, Hank, died of complications associated with DCM, dilated cardio myopathy, a heart disease that affects Doberman Pinschers and several other larger breeds. He lived almost two years post diagnosis and, in…

For the past year or so, Janet and I have dedicated ourselves to working on jigsaw puzzles. To start with, they are great entertainment and doctors have made it clear that focusing on how the pieces all fit together stimulates…

Tomorrow is the inauguration of President Donald Trump for the second of his non-consecutive terms in office. Every American knows that this event is the culmination of the one of the most divisive elections in the history of the United…

It was fifty-nine years ago today that the family buried my paternal grandfather. It had been a long week for Dad and, consequently, the rest of us. Grandpa, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, had wandered away from the nursing home where…