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I was born in 1948. The average white male in America can expect to live 75.3 years, so I’ve already beaten those odds. I had a heart attack twenty years ago and brought me to the brink of death in a hospital ER. Only 25% of the people who have a heart attack in a
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Three films released during my college years (1966-1970) have stuck with me for over fifty years. The Graduate (1967) is an obvious choice for great movie: Mike Nichols earned an Academy Award for Best Director. Anne Bancroft played the delicious seductress Mrs. Robinson, and Dustin Hoffman was the title character who after the seduction falls
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I’m an introvert. Being in a room with more than one person makes me nervous. Actually, unless the one person is my wife Pamela, sometimes one is too many. Most people think I’m an extrovert. I taught school for forty-nine years, constantly in front of a classroom, meeting with students and parents, coaching high school
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The healing of the paraplegic man appears in all three synoptic gospels which suggests the importance of the message. Jesus has returned home to Capernaum to recharge from the ministry he’d been doing. But instead of a break, he was surrounded by crowds of people eager to see him work his miracles. There were so
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2024 wasn’t awful, only challenging. Just before Thanksgiving we traveled to Minneapolis. We saw Agatha Christie’s Unexpected Guest at Theater in the Round and caught A Christmas Carol at the Guthrie. We came home and tested positive for covid. That’s our year in a nutshell. Good friends, family, good theater, followed by disaster or near
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The people of Israel were behaving badly … again. So Joshua brought the tribes together (Joshua 24:1-18). He reminded them of their deliverance from slavery and what God did in the wilderness. He said their ancestors had turned away from false gods and enjoined them to do the same. They agreed. Rejoice! But…. I read
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I am an introvert. Being in a room with more than one person makes me nervous. Actually, unless the one person is my wife Pamela, sometimes one is too many. Most people think I’m an extrovert. I taught school for forty-nine years, constantly in front of a classroom, meeting with students and parents, coaching high
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You know about regifting. That’s when you receive too much of something: a third copy of the novel James by Percival Everett, a second air fryer, yet another Hawkeye t-shirt. So, you pass the gift on to someone who doesn’t have these items. Regifting, though, took on new meaning when Pamela and I visited the
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Every Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas the Lewellan family–Lew and Katherine, and whatever kids were at home (Kathe, Paul, and Gail)–would pack into our 1954 Ford and head to Montgomery, Minnesota, home of Kolacky Days and a Green Giant canning plant where Mom met Dad. No one asked, “Where will we go for the holidays this
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My Christian friends and I tend to forget what a funny guy Jesus was. We forget that he laughed, told funny stories, and expected others to laugh with him. When we focus on his sacrifice for us, we may dismiss his human nature. Consider his first miracle. We know he turned water into wine, but
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