take the money…and walk

  Back in the late 80’s, I bought an audio tape course called Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence. It was a course taught by Joe Dominguez about our relationship with money and things…and about how to … Continue reading

you can’t rent a motel room in either of the Dakotas

This summer we took a long family road trip out to Idaho. My cousin warned us that we “didn’t want to have to stop in the Dakotas…you probably won’t be able to find a motel room because of all the … Continue reading

the hand that feeds you

W-2’s are eye-opening. It’s a time every year when we get to gauge what we trade our lives for. It’s also maybe a time of year that we can be thankful for opportunities that we are given to keep things … Continue reading

you better roll up your sleeve

I’m feeling a little bit under the weather this morning…and thinking about being required to take the flu shot. How about that?  Required ….you read that right. Earlier in the week, I saw a video report about health care workers … Continue reading

it’s relative

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcVwLrAavyA It’s chilly here in North Carolina this morning. I think that the computer program that tells me how to feel (temperature wise, at least) says that it’s 37 degrees outside this morning. So I feel kind of chilly. My … Continue reading

my son’s new robot

My son has a new robot. It may not even be a robot, I don’t know.  It’s not a doll…even a three-year old boy is offended by that.  I suppose that it’s an action figure…that’s the politically correct way to … Continue reading

Does REM get the royalties?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eyFiClAzq8 So we live every day as if the hammer might fall at any moment. If I believed everything I hear, I just might think that something pretty major was going to happen today.  When I say something pretty major, … Continue reading

we are our own circus

“Ladies and Gentlemen!!….Boys and Girls!!…may I direct your attention to the center ring?!! Now appearing….MEEEEEEEEEEE!!” Our three year old is some kind of weird profundity savant. Where does a comment like that come from at 10:30 at night?  “Now appearing….MEEEEEE!!” … Continue reading

we swim a section at a time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI6fl3Fkw0k The first contemporary Christian artist that I had the chance to see growing up was Phil Keaggy. What an introduction. My friend, John Todd, told me his sister had gotten some tickets to a “free show” (love offering)….I guess … Continue reading

why?

When I dropped our oldest off for her first day of kindergarten, she started to tear up.  She’d never been apart from us and was scared.  I remember kneeling down and hugging her…remember telling her, “don’t cry, sweetie…it’s going to … Continue reading