I couldn’t help but get back in the groove of writing this evening. That’s because something happened today that transported me back to my youth – back to our home at 10050 S. Claremont Ave. in Beverly Hills on the…
Happy New Year! It’s been several weeks since I wrote to you and to be sure, I am so exhausted this evening that I wasn’t going to write anything tonight either. In fact, it has been quite nice to take…
We are several days into the New Year and things are off to a fast start. Jill and her family were here from Oklahoma during Christmas – everyone was under the weather, but things got back to normal as we…
Today is a very special day. For starters, it was exactly nine years ago today that I was awarded a Doctor of Ministry degree, after having completed a monumental project and dissertation dealing with job loss and how families and…
Lately, I have noticed that people have become far more casual about things than they used to be. Things just seem to be watered down more than when we were kids. Back in the day, there were only four or five…
Tonight our Bible study group got together for our annual Christmas dinner at the home of one of our members. One of the things that is so nice about our group is that we all blend so well together. That…
One of my favorite Christmas traditions as a child was to go with Mom to Marshall Field’s in downtown Chicago and have lunch in the Walnut Room that, as I recall, was on the 7th floor of Field’s. Of course,…
When I was a young guy, I used to love watching the various Christmas programs. For those of you old enough to remember, you might recall watching the original “Frosty the Snowman” which was first released in 1953 and featured…
The last several weeks have been challenging, to say the least, for our family and for our oldest daughter, Kristin, in particular. It’s been more than 3 weeks since she had the father of all headaches – an event that…
Janet and I have spent the better part of two weeks watching a number of feel good Christmas movies. Of course, most of them have been on the Hallmark channel, the channel I would pick if I could only choose…