Devotional

Each New Year's Eve, Janet and I replay that night 40 years ago this evening when Janet went into labor, leading to the birth of our second daughter, Jill, early in the morning on January 1, 1978. To be sure,…

Yesterday I was watching a clip from a Christmas show of the Honeymooners with Jackie Gleason and the rest of the cast. His character, Ralph Kramden, was pontificating on the mood of Christmas with his wife, Alice, and at the…

Earlier this week, our oldest grandson, Connor, turned sixteen years old. First of all, this seems incredible to me - that Janet and I are old enough to have a child in her forties and, moreover, that she has a…

My friend, James, and I went fishing while Janet and I were staying at the Greenbrier earlier this week. I always enjoy my time with James and during this trip, we fished on a private stream about 40 minutes away…

Yesterday wasn't one of my better days. Oh, I felt fine physically but I seemed to go from one problem to another without so much as some time to recover from the last fiasco. Admittedly, while none of these individual…

Cooper, one of our grandsons, is a typical twelve year old kid who, like almost all boys in Indiana, loves to play basketball. In fact, I think it is a prerequisite to live in this state. There are hoops on…

This has been something of an anticpation filled week-end. Here in Carmel, we had the opening of the Christkindlemarkt including the ice skating rink that will be in operation until early March. The new market, technically in English the "Christ…

Okay. I have turned into one of those people I said that I would never become. In fact, I am sitting here in our small hearth room in front of the fireplace and a cabinet full of Christmas decorations. In…

When I was growing up in Beverly, Mom used to shop at a locally owned grocery store, Belmont, where she could purchase all the food for the family each week -  including terrific meat! She knew the butchers and the…

As most of you know, I am the oldest of three brothers. Doug was born 21 months after I was and Ken came more than 5 years 9 months after that. I was always raised to take care of my…