In my 50-some years on this lovely planet I have had the privilege of participating in a wide array of activities. I like to think that I am a fairly well rounded individual, but this weekend I did something new – I performed at an open mic. It was a last minute kind of thing.…

I spend a lot of time with my grandsons. Three are in the same town and one is in Hawaii, but we see each other online. I love them all. As they get older, they do more and more different things that make me proud. For one, it might be making a clever joke, another…

We went to a play this weekend called Come From Away. It was a true story about the planes that were inbound for the US on the morning of the 9/11 attack. One of the wonderful themes that the play dealt with was the humanity shown by the Canadian hosts to their unexpected guests. At…

We made it through the Thanksgiving weekend and are now solidly in the Christmas Season it’s not even that fake, “way too early Walmart starts in July” kind of season, this is the real deal. We celebrated Thanksgiving with a bunch of our family, both the Forever kind and the genetic kind. There was more…

I went to a men’s retreat this weekend. I’m not typically a “men’s retreat” kind of guys, but they needed someone to play bass on the worship team, so I agreed to go. As I was riding down the road with our Worship Pastor, Jason, I watched the vehicle ahead of us kick up a…

“We’re on a mission from God…”. That’s the famous line from Elwood Blues. This morning we are on a mission as well. Our grandson is a fourth grader in the state of California, so that means he’s doing a mission report. By random luck he was given a mission in the middle of nowhere. Since…

In this day in age, it is very likely that everyone who reads this has received a “robocall” at some point. A company or candidate pays a nominal fee and then a recorded message gets blasted out over the phone in our homes and pockets. To date I haven’t met a single person who likes…

I did everything I could think of. I ate a lucky hot dog every inning starting in the 7th. I put my hat inside out for a rally cap. I stood up when my team batted. I tried it all, and still I wound up watching a visiting team hoist a trophy and celebrate a…

I went to the theater this weekend to see a play. Dear Evan Hansen won several Tony Awards last season and the national touring company is in LA for our first engagement of the season. I knew nothing about the play, other than there had been some buzz through the summer. The play begins with…

This weekend I took my wife to the CR Family BBQ. It was the first time our “area” has done one. I use the quotes, because we are an outlier of any CR area since we live in such a remote area. The BBQ started at 3:30 and I get out of the prison at…