Category Archives: Everyday Thinking
Seven Men and the Secret of Their Greatness (book review)
Seven Mean and the Secret of their Greatness, by Eric Metaxas, Thomas Nelson Publishing, Copyright 2016, 221 pages. This book is available in paper and ink, e-reader, audible, and is available in Talking Books which is run by the Library of Congress. Metaxas is so thorough in his research that I am drawn to his …
A Wednesday Morning Doodle
As is my custom, Wednesday morning finds me leading a Bible devotional group at our local senior center. It is one of my very favorite times of the week. Nothing makes me happier than opening the Word of God and sharing what I have discovered. As an interactive group, I learn from them and we …
Drug Addiction, Alcoholism, Abortion
This title is right up front. You know the subject and I am not trying to hide a single thing in a shadowy title. These are old sins. They have been around, I suppose, since the beginning of time. It didn’t take long for the fermentation process to occur and curiosity made mankind taste what …
What Do You Think?
After all these years, I find myself repeatedly hearing my dad’s voice. He always, and I do mean always, looked for the best in people. Maybe it is his gentle persuasion that taught me to look for the best also. Now, he was not naïve, and neither am I. There are evil people of whom …
“Back when I was a child about a hundred years ago. . .”
My students probably heard me say that at least a hundred times or more over the four years they sat in my English classes. I was the only teacher in the high school that allowed birthday celebrations in my class so of course, they made sure to celebrate my birthday royally. One year a student …
Doodling Around the Edges
Here’s a little secret: if you call me and we talk for more than five or ten minutes, I am doodling on the nearest slip of paper I can find. Usually I decorate the corners of a page, then work along the bottom and if the conversation gets extended, I decorate the entire circumference of …
Beyond the Empty Tomb
I just saw an interesting picture of the scene from within the empty tomb looking to the outside. Jesus, of course, had a vision for a dying world of mankind, but do we? Unlike Christmas, Easter does not usually leave me with an emotional sadness that it is over. Every Sunday is a resurrection remembrance. …
A Dirt Road Doodle
Our farmhouse stood back from a dirt road. It wasn’t gravel as many roads around us were. It was dirt. I suppose at one time it was a mere wagon road that led five miles to the nearest town. My grandfather homesteaded the land in the late 1800’s and among the many papers he had …
Three Days in Moscow (book review)
Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire, is written by Brett Baier and Catherine Whitney. It is published and sold by Harper Collins. The print edition in hardcover is 416 pages. The book was published in May, 2018. It is book 2 in a series the Baier is writing. …
All the Presidents: Project Complete
Three years ago, I set out on a project that I hoped would be worthy. The project would have been better done in my younger years, but it is as the worn cliché says, “Better late than never.” I have now read either a biography or autobiography of every one of the 45 U.S. Presidents. …
