While I was getting my morning started…boiling some water for the french press, grinding the coffee, making a peanut butter sandwich for later, packing my banana, filling my water bottle…doing the same things I do every morning in the same … Continue reading
Yearly Archives: 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKdF-IP7rE0 What I think about when I drive around delivering the mail is so random that sometimes I can’t believe it. Of course, the main topic of conversation inside my head is the accurate delivery of the mail. That goes … Continue reading
” I’d like to see that tree you wrote about sometime.” My wife was talking to me about a tree that I’d written a blog post about a couple of days earlier. I’d made a big deal out of this … Continue reading
“They’re great people…these Nepalese guides”. That’s the final quote in this short video…and something I kind of suspected to be true. If I went into an area of the world and threw my weight around…spent my money and enjoyed the … Continue reading
Any parent worth his or her salt is going to say that they’d do anything for their children. “Why, I’d go to the ends of the earth, I’d jump into the fire, I’d give my heart if they needed a … Continue reading
I noticed a tree I hadn’t seen the other day on the mail route. I drive around tree-lined roads every day. There are a lot of trees on my route…but this was a tree that I hadn’t noticed before. I … Continue reading
I love the moment when a friend who also loves music says, “hey, how about this guy? You ever heard of… Willy Porter?” (or any other great artist that a friend might turn me onto). This guy is soooo good. … Continue reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4oCrCwEIEA I’ve heard some people say that time is speeding up. I don’t know if that’s really true…I think it’s more situational. I’ve been in some meetings or teleconferences that seemed to bend time. They dragged on forever. I guess … Continue reading
In 1967 my father drove into our driveway in California with a new car. It was a yellow Ford Fairlane station wagon with an automatic transmission and a 289 under the hood. As a seven-year old, of course I didn’t … Continue reading
My first two years after high school, I went to a small Lutheran college in Newberry, SC. I have a lot of good and strong memories of my time at Newberry. Some of the best people I’ll ever know I … Continue reading