What Is a Cold Day?
It feels cold today. Is that crazy? It was in the upper twenties one day this week, about twenty degrees warmer than in my hometown in...
Not Out, Just Otherwise Engaged
I don't understand why some circumstances allow me to work more efficiently than others. For instance, when I'm working on the final 'put...
Bloomers Are Better
We've all heard it said that we should bloom where we're planted. Make lemonade out of lemons. Play the hand that's been dealt to you. ...
Dark Christmas
The cruelest part of the Christmas story is found in Matthew 2:16-18. Herod had asked the Wise Men to report back to him when they found...
The Perfect Gift
Christmas is coming again. We look forward to it, yet it scares us to know there are only "___ shopping days left." There is a lot of...
Advent snow
Snow really goes with Christmas. When I was growing up in Spencer, New York, we children really looked forward to snow. There were so...
Satisfaction
Satisfaction guaranteed? Sure, buddy. There doesn't seem to be such a thing anymore. Satisfaction is a commodity we don't seem to...