Holidays can be many things to different people, depending on their circumstances  and environments and a host of other factors. For...

I’m thankful that I live in a country that affords me great freedoms, of expression, of worship, of opportunities to better myself, and...

Readers of this blog know by now that I’m a bibliophile, I love books and reading them. Granted, I’m selective in what I read, but within...

Perhaps you recall the famous lines about “the best laid plans of mice and men.” Often, the flow of “normal” life events tends to...

I was impressed the minute the man got out of his truck. My appreciation for him grew by the minute. When the installer arrived, two...

It’s always been hard, it seems, to get “back in the swing” once I’ve been away for a while, and the week just past has been no...

On this date in history, several important events occurred. Columbus landed on San Salvador, discovering the New World in his quest to...

For several years, I had read various comments and articles about and notices and advertisements for the Write2Ignite Christian writers’...

Growing up as a kid, I thought that all grandparents–not only my own but also those of my friends–were old. After all, they had white,...

Home. There’s nothing like it, especially when one is returning to it after a long vacation. It’s not just a general coming back home...

News Flash! Dateline North Carolina–Thurs., April 5, 2018 We’re grandparents again! Our daughter Rachelle gave us Number 7 yesterday...

More than two weeks (actually 18 days) have passed since my last blog post. I took a little hiatus from blogging so my wife and I could...

Snarled in stop-and-go holiday shopping traffic the other day, I complained aloud the oft-repeated refrain, “This traffic is moving along...

Granddaughters were at the top of that list of reasons, of course. Three of our six grandkids live in that area, our most recent addition...

Combine the need to keep a secret with a growing forgetfulness in the secret-keeper, and you have a potential major problem. That was my...