• About Bruce

    A web programmer by day, I somehow still spend a lot of time thinking about relationships, God, and the significance of grace and love in daily events. I am old school in the sense that I believe in the reality of sin, and in the need of each human heart for deliverance to the Divine. I am one of those who believes that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and that you can find most answers to life's pressing issues in Him and His Word, the Bible. I ain't perfect, and a lot of the time I ain't good, but by God's grace and kindness, I am forgiven and free.

    Kids and Vets

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    Last month, I told myself I needed to find somewhere to plug in and volunteer some time, so of course, most of this month has been spent not doing that, but just thinking about it. I finally actually explored an option last night and at a work colleague’s invite attended a meeting of the...

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    The Son Who Takes

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    Throughout my life I have been fairly close to the Bible. As kids, I and my brother and sister grew up going to Sunday School and church each weekend. We were involved with youth groups and church choirs in middle school and high school. We heard lots of Bible teachings. In high school, I...

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    Writing Lessons

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    So it was a few weeks ago that my oldest niece, with the help of my brother, asked me if I would take some time to help her with her creative writing. I think I mentioned in an earlier post that my niece, of her own volition, began to write a collection of stories...

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    The Path

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    When the light began to fade and the night birds began to chatter and the whine of bugs filled the valley, the small old man shuffled out of the hut and began to walk his trail down to the water. The trail was clean sand and little round rocks, forgiving on his bare feet,...

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    SuperDud

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    I thought this evening would be a good evening to try and do some archiving of some of my documents and images from various systems from over the years. In particular, it has been my desire and hope to go through all of my various old media caches (3.5″ disks, Zip disks, old CDs...

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    Rio

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    We are a river that stretches from joy to grief from vibrancy to decay The winds of time blow around us and the sun beats down For one day we roll from morning to night from spring to winter from north to south from summit to sea Find the pool and circle in the...

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    Vancouver Summer and the Kid

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    When I was between my sophomore and junior years of college, I was happy to be able to participate in a summer missions project. Growing up as a Baptist kid in Southern Baptist churches, it was natural that I continued my denominational association in college. Right across the street from the University of New...

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    Romantics

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    I thought of a good line today, and I figured it was good enough tonight for an entry. And, pretty much, it’s all I am good for tonight. Romantics harbor wishes and wounds. Deep stuff.

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    The Return

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    It was the end of the afternoon when the scouting party was seen entering the dale to the north of the presidio. The horses ambled in tight rank, and the column of soldiers was compressed and controlled. The slow company was surrounding one long, tapered red horse in particular with an officer laying slumped...

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    Meeting An Old “Twin”

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    This last August, I enjoyed going to my 30th high school reunion, if nothing more than to see a bunch of faces that I, 30 years ago and some, used to see day in and day out at school- although, in much younger versions. That’s the thing about reunions- for those that go, everyone...

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    Enjoying Longmire

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    I started binge-watching the TV show Longmire about three weeks ago, and after the first episode, I was hooked, for several reasons. For me, the first reason I latched on to the show was fairly obvious. Though the show is supposed to take place in Wyoming, it is filmed in my beloved state of...

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    With Leaders Like These

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    I spent a pretty good chunk of the day today researching a little more into early New Mexico history, and I certainly learned some interesting, but challenging, nuggets about Spain in the New World. It is well known that the main reason for Spain’s presence in the Americas was their quest to find precious...

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    The Tilted Axis

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    I’d like to say I know when it started, and why it started, but I don’t. I think I’ve just always seen that its been there, that I was probably born that way, and that I probably couldn’t change it. The other night I put up a post about going to Boys State, and...

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    Words for a Young Writer I

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    I’m not the best person to reach, or to even talk to for very long, on the phone. I blame that a little on doing phone support at Intuit for a little over three years. I am also a fairly solitary person in the first place, and an introvert. I’m just not a big...

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    Remembering State

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    For whatever reason, this morning I found myself thinking about coming into my senior year in high school, and wanting then to go to Boys State. I’m not sure why I really wanted to do that back then. It wasn’t that I was a big civics buff, intrigued by government. I found myself chasing...

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