I can still remember when I got my first calculator that would fit in my pocket. It was in High School and it cost what then seemed like a fortune. But it could do so much, add, multiply, divide etc. It could even do percentages and find the square root of any numbers. At least…
The Gift of the World
So, who got stuff for Christmas? Who gave stuff for Christmas? Was it good stuff? I wonder where the stuff will be a year from now? Christmas is often called the season of giving, and people all over the world give one another gifts, even if they don’t agree with or believe in what Christmas…
Gotta Hate that
You gotta hate it when a plan doesn’t come together. When Jason Best heard that a local theatre was going to be showing the controversial movie “The Interview” he began to see dollar signs. Best said that he heard all the hype about the movie and its limited showing and purchased $650.00 in tickets with…
Sorry George
Well, that learned him. And it certainly acted as a deterrent because he never did it again. But what if he didn’t do it the first time? Just recently a South Carolina resident was exonerated 70 years after he was executed. And that my friends is why I’m opposed to capital punishment. In 1944 George…
A Christmas Without Grace
If you think of Grace at all at Christmas it probably relates to the short prayer that you will say over the dead bird at Christmas Dinner and you probably wouldn’t necessarily think of Amazing Grace as a Christmas song but you can’t really celebrate the Christmas Story without seeing Grace written all through it.…
Cancelling Christmas
It’s funny, not funny ha-ha but funny strange, how quickly we lose interest. This summer when the victims numbered in the hundreds, news about the Ebola crisis was everywhere. There were fund raising efforts happening and you couldn’t open a newspaper or turn on the television without reading or hearing dire predictions. But now, not…
A Christmas Without Miracles
Have you ever heard the phrase “The Magic of Christmas”? Probably, if you google that phrase you get almost 29,000,000 hits. Everything ranging from albums of Christmas music to campaigns to provide toys to underprivileged children, to children’s books, to more inspirational plaques than you can count. It was Norman Vincent Peale who wrote “Christmas…
What Friday?
Last week I heard a teenage girl ask her father “Is Black Friday a holiday?” When he assured her that Black Friday was not a holiday and that she would have to be in school she seemed puzzled as she was sure that it was. After a little bit of back and forth he suggested…
A Christmas Without Christ
Have you noticed that every year people seem more intent on secularizing Christmas? They wish you a “Happy Holiday” or “Seasons Greetings” they have presentations at school that make no mention of the manger or the Wise Men let alone the Christ Child. Now I may be a little overly sensitive but somehow I think…
Big Brother. . .
I received a letter in the mail the other day from the KIA dealer inviting me to trade my 2011 Rav4 in on a new KIA. So how did the KIA dealer know that I own a 2011 Rav4? When I open my browser I’m undulated with ads about things I have shown an interest…