Category Archives: Families
The Mother and Child Reunion
Obviously Paul Simon had mommy issues. “Mama looked down and spit on the ground every time my name gets mentioned.” “The first thing I remember, I was lying in my bed/ I couldn’t’ve been no more than one or two/ … Continue reading
Don’t Bother Me with the Facts; I want Fads
Everyone knows the joke about the person who does not want to be “bothered” with the facts. A January 20, 2014 Time magazine article is startling in its honesty that people aren’t interested in facts but fads….This from a magazine … Continue reading
My Spirit Rejoices Regardless of Who Said It
At the most recent ACELC conference I met a layman. I will call him Leon for that is his name and he would not shrink from being identified. He was at a conference recently where the Reverend Doctor Jeffery Kloha … Continue reading
“These are Men Who Jump and Die”
For weeks, maybe months, in 1966 while my mom was shopping for groceries I was at the soda fountain in the Muir’s drug store with my father listening as Barry Saddler sang the “Ballad of the Green Berets.” One of … Continue reading
Boom! Changes Everything
Fox has a new summer show titled Boom! and does it change everything? No, it shows everything really has changed.
I’m NOT Looking for Something in Green
There is a song from 1990 by Lorrie Morgan and it’s worth listening to. “I’m looking for something in Red” is the title, but the second stanza is what I write of. It goes. “I’m looking for something in green/ Something … Continue reading
More Computing Power than it took to get to the Moon
How many times have you heard that a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, and now I suppose a smartphone has more computing power than they had to get to the moon? I don’t know about that one way or the other. I do … Continue reading
The Voyage of the Damned
This is the title of a 1976 movie and 1974 book based on a true WWII era event. A ship with over 900 Jews sailed from Germany to Cuba in 1939 because of the rising tide of anti-Semitism. Cuba wouldn’t … Continue reading
Ever learning, but…
You know when a person says something and then says “but” that he is about to modify, and usually in a bad way, what he has just said. You would think “ever learning” has got to be a good thing. Not … Continue reading
A Little Yeast, a Little Hole, a Little Pregnant
What do yeast, holes, and pregnancy have in common? There really is no such thing as a “little” of any of these, and if nothing is done they will only get bigger. Sane people want the mother to grow bigger … Continue reading