Pomp & Circumstance

June, 2008 – Graduation Sunday – the day for the church to honor her graduates… As youth coach and mentor, I had my usual 30 brilliant ideas and last-minute to-do’s with top priority. (Demand/Control:  surrender 10, delegate 5, and receive 5 more) …and the clock was spinning… (I think it goes into hyper-drive right before deadlines) …and the …

Meet my Parents

In the mid 1960’s, a handsome airman pursued a lovely young lady who caught his eye in the church they attended.  No sooner were they married when he received orders to go overseas for a time, and his bride moved across the country to join his family while he was away.  In due time, I was born there, where I …

It’s not your demographic, it’s your inappropriate behavior!

Persecution happens, all over the world, for a variety of reasons, most equally inexcusable. But c’mon, people, not every little inconvenience is worthy to be called persecution. Sometimes it’s just an appropriate response to inappropriate behavior.

Notes on Life

‘k…so I’ve been writing a letter to my neice for her 16th B’day… and writing… and writing… some of it’s good stuff…stuff I’d tell my crew if given another chance or two… and, lest it take my dear niece until her 17th birthday to read it all, I figured I’d put some o’that out here …