There are moments at this place where I am in life where it seems like the wisest move I could make is to just get rid of all this stuff I’ve accumulated over the years. It seems like there could be a great freedom in actually doing that. The truth is, most of my...
Read more →In 2016, the Chicago Cubs did the improbable, and the mostly unexpected, by winning the World Series. Okay- it wasn’t wholly improbable or unexpected in 2016, except to diehard Cubs fans. But it wasn’t wholly improbable or unexpected because of the people the owners and the team put in place during the prior handful...
Read more →I’m not the biggest fan of birthdays. I mean, it is something to make it another year, but birthdays also remind me that, well, I am a little older, and there is still a lot in life I thought I would have accomplished or experienced in life by now, but I haven’t. Still, I...
Read more →I was clickety-clacketing away at my keyboard at work today when a co-worker mused, “It’s already the 20th. Can you believe February is almost gone?” Yeah, uhh- well, no, I can’t. The year just started. It was just yesterday that the old calendar was tossed and the new one was hung. Well, it was...
Read more →I heard some tough news this week. I learned earlier this week about a long-time acquaintance and highly-regarded man in the local church community who had left his wife of thirty years to run off with another woman. This man ran two prominent and successful Christian bookstores here in town over the years and,...
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