An interesting article in this mornings paper….In 1633 the Roman Catholic Church tried Galileo Galilei as a heretic and sentenced him to life imprisonment because he taught that the earth revolved around the sun which threatened the churches contention that the earth was the center of the universe. The article …

Here it is, Tuesday the 23rd of December, and true to form, I haven’t done any Christmas shopping yet. I’ll probably go today, unless of course I find out that the store’s will still be open tomorrow. I enjoy Christmas shopping about as much as I enjoy a good canker …

Every year you hear the same complaints about Christmas….that it keeps getting further away from it’s original meaning, that there is more commercialism and less Jesus. Christmas is morphing. It’s on a slow journey from what it once was to what ever it will become. But isn’t this true of …

I see Dr. Wayne Dyer is mentioned in one of the “letters to the editor” this morning. The letter writer is giving him kind of a bad rap, calling him a pop psychologist. I’ve read all of Wayne Dyer’s books. Wayne Dyer is not a pop psychologist, he’s a motivational …

A few weeks ago I discovered I had a mouse in my house. I dealt with the problem like I do most things in life, using my old motto….”Always put off to tomorrow what doesn’t need to be done today.” But I soon discovered that a “mouse” can quickly turn …

My sixtieth birthday has come and gone, it’s official, I’m an old man now. I guess I should say something like, “It’s only a number.” But have you ever noticed how it’s only older folks who say that? You never hear a 24 year old say, “It’s only a number” …

Today is my daughter Becky’s birthday. She is 36 years old, my first born child. I’m putting this on my blog because I want the world to know what a great person Becky is. This is my birthday card to her….
Happy birthday Becky! I can’t believe it’s been 36 years …

I get bored easily with people who do not, for whatever reason, share who they really are. And most people don’t, at least not until they get to know you better. But I have to wonder….why is that? What do we risk loosing by sharing our deepest core beliefs and …

They say that you better be careful of what you ask for because you just might get it. That is true, and on many levels. It’s taken me most of my life just to get a glimpse at how this works and what it really means.
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We Americans are a decisive group. Our religions, our politics, our sexual orientations, our sports, our addictions, our personal philosophies, our cultures and our cultures within cultures, there are a lot of things we can define our differences on. I think America is uniquely more divided within than most countries …