On the last full day of our trip, we visited Highclere Castle. Which is a beautiful estate encompassing 5,000 acres. Its history goes back to 749, and as we toured the estate, I discovered some remarkable things from its past. At Highclere, the Fourth Earl of Carnarvon helped draft the BNA act with Sir John…
Impatient or Intolerant?
I don’t know if I’m impatient or intolerant or both and I’m not looking for an answer. The other night I was impatiently waiting in line at a convenience store while the lady in front of me took her good old time selecting the numbers that she was convinced would win her $10,000,000.00 before the…
How’d It Do That?
The other day I was working on my computer and after doing a fairly standard cut and paste in the document I had open I had a startling revelation. I had no idea how the computer did what it did. I mean it wasn't exactly putting someone on the moon but still how did this…
Ask Not What . . .
The other day I was thinking about a biography of John F. Kennedy I had watched on A&E. And I gained a whole new respect for a man who was assassinated when I was three years old. (You can do the math) Now I don’t know how you feel about JFK as a man or…
Are You Dead?
Bizarre; that was the first thought that came to mind when I read a news story about a man in Japan who had been discovered dead on the street. The body, believed to be that of a homeless man in his late 60s or early 70s, was found in front of a popular department store…
Don’t call it Luck!
A few weeks ago, when gasoline was at its highest, someone told me how lucky I was that we drove a hybrid. Lucky? My first thought was that many factors went into us having a hybrid, but none of those were luck. We didn’t win it. Several years ago, when we first moved into our…
Loving those with More
The other day I saw a couple of massive motorhomes, and my first thought was to feel bad for them with the current gas price. And then I thought, they are driving a quarter of million-dollar motorhomes. They don’t need me to feel bad for them. And then I felt bad because I didn’t feel…
Restraining Orders
I read a great news article a while back. It concerned a man in Kansas City, Kansas by the name of Wesley Fitzpatrick who applied for a temporary restraining order against a female whom he said was stalking him. Fitzpatrick claimed that she was making him “scared and depressed and in fear of my freedom.” The…
A Fisherman’s Tale
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Thoughts from the Front Row
And just like that, I was sitting in the front row. And I wasn’t sure how I felt about that.Last Friday, I participated in the ordination service at Beulah Camp for our newly ordained ministers. It was special in that two of the ministers being ordained had spent their teen years as a part of…