Category Archives: Personal

My Mom’s birthday is July sixth. She was born in 1926. Mom was as patriotic as they come. On the Fourth in July in 1976, her smartalec teenage son (that would have been me) asked her what it felt like … Continue reading →

My Mom passed away last night. Not much more to say, is there.

… not to be bitter, spiteful, and all that. It’s not working very well. You see, I poured my guts into the book. It was more than a personal act of returning to my first love. It was a statement … Continue reading →

And one of these days I’ll actually get caught up!

As those of you who’ve made it through to the afterword of God’s Not Dead (And Neither Are We) know, a few years ago I had surgery on my left arm to alleviate ulnar nerve entrapment, this going along with … Continue reading →

I’ve been playing guitar a lot the past couple of days. It’s a good thing. More on this tomorrow.

Sometimes the words don’t come easily. Sometimes not at all. There is a measure of sorrow in my heart as I look at the world in which I live. So many things I don’t understand; so many things I wish … Continue reading →

… but the blogger is barely able to register a whisper tonight.  Try it again tomorrow.

Ten years. Really.  Ten years. I remember that first Father’s Day without you, ten years ago.  It was hell.  Now they still hurt.  But that’s okay.  It’s supposed to hurt.  Comes with that being human thing. Hurting helps us become … Continue reading →