Well, Friday night and we are in the Akron General Hospital where Kathy is getting two units of blood. This is our second visit to the hospital this week. This cycle of chemo has again bottomed out Kathy’s white counts. Thankfully, we were on top of it this time and there have [...]
Sitting here tonight thinking about the upcoming Father’s Day and the pride I have in two sons who call me “Dad” I recalled that I have been blessed to have many “fathers” whose influence and life have impacted mine. Allow me to explain…
My grand-fathers–Ernest Isaacs and Stanley Simpson raised my parents. These men were [...]
I like Camp Meeting!
There is always much talk in this season of the year about the value of Camp Meeting and whether it is relevant anymore. I get amused at how we are dismissive of ideas that are not comfortable to us and assume that our interests are superior to those of others. [...]
It’s that time of year when sports fans get the thrill of non-stop basketball that matters! Â I’m not talking about NBA “nothing matters until the final 3 minutes of a game” action but the real stuff…NCAA basketball action.
From the time my boys were old enough, the weeks of March Madness stoke a fire of competition [...]
I’ve always enjoyed riding bikes. As a small child, my sister Lynn and I got bikes for Christmas one year and we made laps around our dad’s church day after day, even when it was so cold that we had to bundle up. After I got married, I kept riding for relaxation and [...]
Tonight I stopped a gas station near the airport where I was scheduled to fly home and a young man approached me at the pump and offered to pump my gas. Â I’m almost too old to remember when gas stations were full-service but I agreed and he and I engaged in light conversation about weather [...]
My reading this month in 1 & 2 Samuel began with the infamous story of Hannah, a humble but dedicated wife to Elkanah whose second wife was a disrespectful, insecure piece of work! Peninnah was apparently very jealous of Hannah and because she had already given birth to some children and Hannah had not, she [...]
The pictures coming out of Haiti cause even the casual observer to be shocked at the loss of life, the conditions of living and the anticipation of what life will be like in the days ahead. Â Just imagining tonight, the hundreds of thousands of dead in the streets and under collapsed buildings drew my memory [...]
Around the first of the year, everyone gets into the mode of making resolutions to lose weight, to get out of debt and other issues. Â I’ve done that but the momentum of the year long strategy seems to lose steam about 6 weeks in…so in 2010, my goal is to break the year into monthly [...]
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