It's the latest film The Batman movie but with Adam West! Check out the Batmobile!&nb...
Wednesday, April 27, 2022
Sunday, April 24, 2022
Anxious for nothing, prepared for anything
How I have not been diagnosed with some kind of anxiety disorder, I may never know. But it is true: I have been anxious too awful much for anyone during these past several years (and by "several", I mean two decades at least). Especially too anxious as a Christian, when I should have been waiting patiently for God in His time.A few weeks ago a dear friend gave me a copy of Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World, by Max Lucado....
Thursday, April 21, 2022
The CDC: Too much power given to an agency
One February morning in 1997, I was at a gas station in Burlington, North Carolina. At the counter someone was complaining about new cigarette laws requiring that people under a certain age must show their photo ID. He said it was a stupid law."Wait, let me explain something," said the bearded man behind the counter. "What you are protesting against is not a law. You are instead protesting a regulation. A law is something...
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
New children's book asks: what is an abortion?
Big League Politics posted a story yesterday about a children's book titled - and I am not making this up - What's An Abortion, Anyway?Does anyone else catch the irony about this?A book for children.About abortion.As if our kids aren't having enough of their childhood taken away from them already. Now comes this.(And I can't even find a literary agent for the book...
Monday, April 18, 2022
Mission accomplished!
Yesterday was Easter. And with it came an end to making a blog post for each day during this year's Lent. I'm in a bit of surprise that I was able to pull it off. There were times when I thought I wouldn't be able to make it. A number of close calls, like having to post from my iPhone while at a hospital with a client. But somehow, I was indeed able to make one blog post a day throughout Lent.Forty-seven days ago, things...
Sunday, April 17, 2022
Saturday, April 16, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 46
Last night I was on the phone with a friend and, as has happened with a lot of our conversations lately, it turned to spiritual matters. And that led to me sharing a little (I say "little" because the entire story runs WAY too long for a phone or blog post) about how I came to follow Christ, now a little over twenty-five years ago.I haven't said very much about that, either here or elsewhere. I guess as with so much else it got washed...
Friday, April 15, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 45
Today is Good Friday: the commemoration of the day that Jesus Christ died at Calvary. It's only fitting, then, that today's installment of "blogging for Lent" should be mindful of that.Good friend of this blog and all around amazing guy "Lowbridge" found this a little while ago and shared it on another forum. I decided it was well worth passing along to this blog's readers as well. As good a thing as any for the occasion.Longtime...
Thursday, April 14, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 44
I got pulled over this morning! Now that's pretty impressive, since it's been over ten years since I last got a ticket. Actually it was three tickets in the span of less than a month and a half (what can I say, I was eager to see my girlfriend in Virginia). And then you factor in that during that time I've driven across America and back for a whole year, and all the states that we passed through. That's pretty close to 100,000...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 43
Wow. Where did the years GO to?A few weeks ago, for whatever reason, I popped in the Blu-ray of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. It had been quite some time since I'd watched the second chapter of the saga's prequel trilogy. Actually, I think it might have been since before The Force Awakens premiered, and that was in late 2015.A few minutes into...
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 42
Gonna be WAY easy to post today! The trailer for Stranger Things season four dropped this morning. I may or may not have watched this a few times at the office today.Holy smokes! Hard to believe it's been three years since season three. Looks like the wait will be worth it though. Love the use of Journey's "Separate Ways" in this. Just... epic, man.War is coming indeed. And did you catch Robert Englund's...
Monday, April 11, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 41
When I started "blogging for Lent" almost a month and a half ago, it came during a lesser moment for me. I had taken a serious blow. Depression was about to swallow me up again. I couldn't see any possibility of life taking a turn for the better. God? I could see Him working in the little things... but I confess to harboring doubt that He had heard my most desperate prayers to Him.And now? Now...I'm less than a...
Sunday, April 10, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 40
It's Tammy's Tenth Birthday Party!! Here are some of the pics from the event, which was attended by two dogs and their collective three humans. Including photos of the cake I baked for the occasion. And a good time was had by all! Click to embiggen:The birthday girl and me :-)Tammy's friend SashaTammy did NOT like the idea of wearing a party hat!The...
Saturday, April 09, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 39
This was such an action packed week that I wound up sleeping until just after four this afternoon! Lots of stuff at work, some things not work-related and then a VERY awesome day yesterday. I am presently baking a birthday cake for my dog Tammy, for a party some friends and I are throwing for her tomorrow (Tammy's good buddy Sasha will also be there). The ingredients of the cake include peanut butter, applesauce, and honey. ...
Friday, April 08, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 38
HAPPY TENTH BIRTHDAY to this little goober:Yes friends and neighbors, it was ten years ago today on Easter Sunday 2012 that my miniature dachshund Tammy was born! She was one of a litter of five - two boys and three girls - and she was also the runt. I think it's safe to say that she has ended up with a more interesting life than most dogs get to have. ...
Thursday, April 07, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 37
Today's blog post sort of suggested itself, in the wake of events during the past three days. Maybe what I'm about to say will help others who are finding themselves in the grip of depression, or some other mental health situation.You see, this week my path has crossed those of two people who I care about: one in my personal life and another who I know from my work as...
Wednesday, April 06, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 36
At the moment I am posting this from a hospital. Work has obligated me to focus on other matters this evening. So there won't be a regular blog post, not like I would have wanted it to be anyway. Just the nature of things. Maybe there'll be something more to write tomorrow. Until then, take care and God ble...
Tuesday, April 05, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 35
Not too much to report this evening. It was a fairly busy day on the job. Peer support certainly does not lack for drama!I didn't know what to post tonight until I read some sad news. Bill Fries passed away a few days ago at the age of 94. He was an ad executive who started acting in his own commercials as the
character he created, C.W. McCall. Then he decided to have his fictional
character become a singer and he sang about...
Monday, April 04, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 34
I know what I want to write. And it is wonderful. The problem is that I'm not quite "all there" tonight. Blame seasonal allergies and Yours Truly trying some exotic antihistamines yesterday that kept me up all night. I worked through the day (and drove almost seventy miles in the course of duties) with barely a break. And I'm still hoping to catch tonight's championship game...(For this occasion alone, I will root for...
Sunday, April 03, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 33
So, Duke fell to North Carolina last night. I now have no one to cheer for in this tournament. Kansas always seemed too overhyped to me, and they beat Villanova yesterday. Or maybe I'll root for UNC tomorrow night just because they're still from my neck of the woods.Mike Krzyzewski made a mistake in announcing his retirement well before the season. He should have waited until after the tournament. Instead he made this...
Saturday, April 02, 2022
Lenten Bloging 2022: Day 32
For the past six days we've been watching it like a hurricane, churning ever closer and gaining strength along the way. It has become the perfect storm: nothing like this has happened before and nothing like it will ever happen again. We are bracing for a collision of gargantuan proportions and no matter who wins it will be a battle for the ages.Tonight, Duke plays North Carolina in the NCAA Basketball Tournament semifinal.The two teams...
Friday, April 01, 2022
Lenten Blogging 2022: Day 31
So much that could be said. Today was one of extremes. In the midst of my joys there was a time of sadness, and I was reminded of just how very different things could have been, had the circumstances of my life been a little altered.When my dog Tammy and I were traveling west across America, we spent a few months in San Diego. I figured that we had gone as far west as we could, might as well try to stay. So we were there from...
