the chihuahua proof fence

There’s a house on my route that caught fire a couple of years ago. In the fire, it was gutted… but since the house could be reclaimed, they repaired it and the folks who lived there have since moved back … Continue reading

the gentle art of appreciation

My friend Dave posted this on his Facebook page yesterday. I’d never had a chance to see it before….what a great performance by Heart of the classic Led Zeppelin song “Stairway to Heaven”. Watching Heart perform the song, the thing … Continue reading

in the world, not in the world

There’s a phrase in the Bible that describes our situation here on Earth. It says that we’re to consider ourselves “In the world…but not of the world”. I wrestled with that thought for years…wondering how do I transcend daily life, … Continue reading

how big is a bushel?

“Hide it under a bushel?  NO!  I’M GONNA LET IT SHINE.” How big is a bushel? And just what am I hiding my light under? I wrote a blog post about Lloyd Kahn yesterday…and it got me thinking about “right … Continue reading

ugly guitars

One of my favorite scenes in any Indiana Jones movie is the one where he gets an opportunity to pick the Holy Grail. I think it was in the third movie…Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Anyway, he’s in this … Continue reading

burn it up

I bought a load of logs the other day. Jenny said that when they delivered it in the tandem dump truck that the ground shook when the driver dropped the load. It is a big load o’ logs. Not only … Continue reading

YouTube days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX_7HwVa-0A “With a head as full of nothing as a head could be!” That sounds like the perfect jingle for an amazing undeveloped product. I wish I could think of something to pump out into the marketplace. We’d all be … Continue reading

getting used to out of tune

When did good music from “my era” become classic rock? When did I have a time that I could call “my era” develop?  How did that happen? I was listening to some good music (ie classic rock) the other day….and … Continue reading

freakin’ truck

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

growed back wrong

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