In order to set the stage a bit, let’s run through a few realities. It might start something like this: Life is not fair! Circumstances are often unjust. Sooner or later, people will betray us. Many will slander us with lies that have no shred...
The definition of manhood has undergone a torturous number of questionable revisions. Some of those revisions have been reflectively thoughtful. However, most of them appear to have been largely thoughtless. It seems that we’ve attempted to realign the definition...
Did you ever have one of those surreal moments when it seems like something snaps in your head and suddenly you see everything like you never saw it before? A lot of things can trigger these moments—an argument, a child leaving the home, a death, a job loss, a...
Cleaning. It’s the upkeep side of life. It’s the irritating drudgery that’s always following us with broom in hand. Cleaning is the voracious vacuum that’s never satisfied, the frantic feather duster that spews more dust than it captures, and the less than...
Being thankful is a nice idea and something that we're supposed to do. There's something right and proper and good about it. But sometimes in the rush of life we don't feel we have time to be thankful, or that our situation isn't really something to be thankful...
We all have personal agendas, and typically we have quite a boatload of them. When we’re in a feverish pursuit of our agendas, we can (and we frequently will) rob, pillage, and/or discard many things along the way in order to achieve our agendas. Oddly enough, we...
The greatest abuse that we perpetrate on liberty is our assumed right to it. We claim liberty as our God-given right, and we vigorously decry the unjust desecration of it when we feel that it’s being violated. Too many of us view liberty as something that ‘just...
“There’s a tool for that.” I can’t tell you how many times I heard my Dad say that. And in the oddity of life, no matter what task we had to do there was a tool for it; not just some tool but a specific tool. Someone, somewhere, at some time had faced whatever...
Valentine's Day was established by Pope Gelasius in 500 A.D. and was named after one or more of the early Christian martyr's named "Valentine." The day has become one where those in love express that love to one another in a variety of forms. However, as with much...
We stand on the escarpment of a New Year. In many ways, it seems that what lies ahead doesn't rally us with energizing hope, but rather it seems to rattle us with deep apprehension. From the vantage point we stand on at the beginning of this New Year, the landscape...
Some thirty years ago, I was given the opportunity to be a part of the reclamation of a gorgeous seventy-three room colonial-style mansion, as well as the property and numerous out-buildings that were part of this massive, rolling estate. It had sat empty,...
There are those deeply magical places that we all recall as a kid; those places that seem misty, mysteriously surreal and yet warmly captivating. Those places that you'd love to savor again, even if you know they weren't quite as real as you had imagined them...
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