Monthly Archives: October 2020

I enjoy how the Nightly News with David Muir always ends with a positive story.  I know I have mentioned in several of my blogs how the media tends to focus on doom and gloom.  I don’t always watch the … Continue reading →

I have been reading Trevor Noah’s autobiographical essays entitled Born A Crime.  Noah, a South African comedian, was born five years before the end of the practice of apartheid.  At the time of his birth, it was a crime, punishable … Continue reading →

Today is the Festival of Simon and Jude, two of the Twelve who were called by Jesus. Problem is we know almost nothing about Simon and what little we can guess about Jude is utterly confused. Simon is called the … Continue reading →

            We are coming up to Election Day, and this election season we have been inundated with political ads on television.  There have been so many that I’m looking forward to seeing lawyer ads again.  I thought there has to … Continue reading →

  Those of us over the age of forty remember when “opening windows” meant that you turned the crank. I still do that in my truck. All my controls are manual. Now, since the new age of the personal, home computer … Continue reading →

Uncertainty, hatred, turmoil, fear . . . as we approach Election Day, our country is filled with this negativity.   Yes, it makes us angry and our stress level rises.   We worry for ourselves and for our country.  Then we read … Continue reading →

Daniel had risen to power under King Darius.  He was a righteous high-level regent, a believer and upstanding in that realm.  Other regents in the same capacity as Daniel were jealous of his promotion and could find nothing to fault him on.  They … Continue reading →

I recently read the story of a concert violinist who broke a string in the middle of his performance.  Rather than stopping to replace the string, he continued to play, modulating and shifting around his three remaining strings, improvising along … Continue reading →

The ride is over.  It seems to get longer each year.  This year we didn’t take as long as we usually do because of the pandemic.  We stopped briefly to see each of our sons.  But it still seemed longer.  … Continue reading →

Teresa (1515-1582) was a Catholic who lived during the time of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation. She isn’t much known by Protestants. As a teenager she was interested primarily in boys, clothes, flirting and rebelling, so her father put her in … Continue reading →