I was just now staring at my screen pondering what to write to you, Dear Reader. Recently I’ve been reading through all of the previous blogs from the past ten years for a project (look for that it February!), so I am more aware of the things that I’ve written about. I am also cognizant…

My kids have lived on the Big Island for the better part of a decade now. This weekend they did something new. A typical weekend for them looks a lot like this: stay home, watch tv, play video games. Even though they live in a jungle paradise, they don’t really get out much. But this…

I’ve been up for a little bit and all of the other blogs that I read have been doing end of the year things. Looking back at 2024, looking forward to 2025…you know what I’m talking about. I just didn’t feel like doing that post today, so I decided to talk about how hot it…

This week we had a new addition to our family…well, sort of. Mrs. MoM got herself a new knee. She underwent a couple of hours of surgery and then they had her up a walking within two hours. It’s amazing what they can do with modern medicine. She is working hard to get back to…

Yesterday was a l-o-n-g day for my mother and my youngest daughter’s family. They had just finished a Disney cruise together and were set to fly back to the West Coast from Orlando. They were going to different destinations, but everyone had a similar flight time. My girl got tickets with an early departure so…

On Thursday we had the local family over for Thanksgiving dinner. My daughter’s family joined my mother at our house. Being 90, and a bit “kooky”, we are never quite certain what my mother might talk about. She began by saying that she had lost a button from the cuff of her fancy jumpsuit. We…

I’ve been doing prison ministry for several years now. It’s one of the most rewarding parts of my ministry. When we are on the inside we do a lot of different activities, but one of the things we always do, every class we teach, is worship. We don’t always have access to the fancy instruments…

I watched a college football game this weekend. There’s nothing really unusual about that, in and of itself, but this was a renewal of an old rivalry between “My” Texas Longhorns and the Arkansas Razorbacks. For decades, literally my entire lifetime, this was a classic match up. Then as college football grew in prowess and…

We have lots of holidays where we are encouraged to remember something. Perhaps it’s a President, perhaps an event. Today we are encouraged to remember and honor veterans here in the USA. In other places around the world (especially British Commonwealth countries) it is called Remembrance Day. It marks the end of the first World…