So I went to a funeral today, which is the closest thing to a ‘reunion’ we have in my family. My ‘Aunt’ Flo died this last weekend. Flo was my mom’s brother Bill’s first wife, and the mother of 5 of my first cousins. One of her sons, my cousin Brian, is a United Methodist [...]
Just realized that I’ve had a blog site up for several months and didn’t have the quintessential grainy bad webcam photo on here, like many other blogs. How did I miss that? Not EVERY post can be pithy…
I really like sailing. I don’t get to do it much anymore, but years ago, I used to help a couple of friends crew their sailboats – for pleasure, but also in lots of racing events. I am not any sort of expert sailor, but I had learned enough about how and when to trim [...]
Okay, not ‘The Rock’ as a metaphor for Christ, but ‘The Rock Church”, in Portland, IN. I ‘sat in’ there on Sunday, April 29th, and the music they had arranged for that day included modern worship material, and music from the Monkees, the Newsboys, Buffalo Springfield, and Jimi Hendrix. (Good day to be a guitarist!!). [...]