crisis averted

My kids don’t have any idea what “Y2K” was all about.  They were either too young or not born yet.  Perhaps you don’t know much about it either. At the end of the last century, there was enormous concern that the computer systems which ran,...

Living for Jesus

HI , I live in Arizona, where we’ve been having record heat. Every day in July topped 110 degrees Fahrenheit (43.3 degrees Celsius). No matter how you measure it, that’s hot! So the family and I got away from the heat at the end of the month. We took a...

the promise of clouds

Since I live in the desert of Arizona, last month was brutally hot. It’s normally hot in July, but this was extra special. The average day was 113 degrees Fahrenheit and the average overnight low was 93 degrees. Strictly speaking, we are in monsoon season....

All good, no God

It’s a phenomenon that we mark every year.  And every year it draws comments about the timing. But this year really takes the cake! I’m talking about the advent of Christmas decorations in stores. I had to run a quick errand to Costco yesterday (quick...

Not what I signed up for

Have you ever started out down a path, thinking it was a good direction to go, only to find out (later) that it had a ton of unadvertised requirements? Maybe if you’d know about all the consequences up front, you’d have made a different choice? That moment...

an Ode to getting Old[er]

Time keeps passing // Bodies keep changing // Here’s to wisdom growing a pace. I recently had a birthday. Not a MAJOR one where the first digit changed… but one where the second digit became a 5 – signaling halfway to a major birthday. I kept telling...