The side of the road is one of my least favorite places in the world. Roads, I love. Lately I have traveled many of them visiting people I love, moving to a new house, running errands. Rarely do I bother to...
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When Charles Dickens wrote, “It was the best of times; it was the worst of times,” I wonder if he had an energetic dog who loved to go for walks. The majority of blog posts I write about Isaac the...
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Gerasimus of Boldino was born Gregory in the little Russiantown of Pereslav-Zalessky near the turn of the fifteenth century into the sixteenth. He didn’t have any particular reason to attend the worship...
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It used to be The ones who lived close In one’s village Near one’s farm Who used the same well These were one’s neighbors The others The strangers The different The frightening The not to be...
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I’d forgotten I set the computer power cord on top of my car until I saw the cord fly away on the side of the road. A jail crew was working–picking up trash and weeding. I pulled over anyway. And...
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Job was the kind of guy to which blame and shame won’t stick. He feared God and turned away from evil thoughts and actions. Job had many sheep, camels, oxen, donkeys, and servants but he was so...
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Somewhere between the towns of Lyon and Marks on Tuesday, there was a “concert.” The venue? My car. The performer? Me. The microphone? My empty, 24 oz. water bottle that says, “I LOVE THE...
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How easy to be Pharaoh Merely Look At the Other Repeat the magic words He is less than I Why She is not Even Human Those Other folks They Are not The same As us We are Special Because they Are not The same...
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