I sometimes wish I were less transparent. I sometimes wish I were more of a mystery. It seems like my feelings are so obvious, and that the vulnerability from it could be dangerous. I was at a store recently. My former photography student Devon was behind the counter. “You look sad,” she said. “I am…

In a public setting recently, someone said they were, “a Christian first, a family man second, a countryman third, and a member of this group fourth.” His assertion was intended to express his life’s priorities, and I understood his point, but I don’t agree that you have to put them in an inflexible order. If…

There is a brilliant scene in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. The character of Rob (who is also called Max) played by Tony Roberts, has invited Woody’s character Alvy Singer (who is also called Max) to sit in on a television post-production session of Rob’s show. Rob gives instructions to the technical director about where to…

Yes, I am still going through stuff, stuff and more stuff as I clean out the house. There certainly is a lot of scrap paper, everything from canceled checks from when my late wife Abby and her first husband ran Stuckey’s Restaurants in the 1970s, to spiral notebooks intended for a class or a project…

I read just today that Arches National Park  will implement a temporary, pilot timed entry system “to help manage traffic and improve visitor experiences, from April 3 to October 3, 2022.” I wrote about this issue once before (link), but today I want to be a little more thoughtful. The National Park system is under…

Lately the internet has been hocking wet loogies on my cupcake and telling me it’s frosting. Most recently is the idea that every page … every page … had some kind of delayed pop-up, mostly intended to get me to sign up for updates. Usually there is no “No Thanks” button, just a tiny, hard-to-see…

This item originally came to me as a letter to the editor, but we didn’t publish it. I share it here because, res ipsa loquitur… “the thing speaks for itself.” Unbelief Leads to Eternal Damnation Unbelief in God the Creator dooms an individual to going to Hell and later to the Lake of Fire.  Two…

“I don’t think you’re going to come away from this ‘decoding’ knowing anything more about him than what is already commonly known. You may learn something about him you, personally, didn’t know before, but as for ‘decoding’ him? Not gonna happen. Not from photos of his journal pages alone.” And so another dismissive, journalist wannabe…

Get a college degree in the field you wish to research. Get a masters degree in the field you wish to research. Get a doctorate in the field you wish to research. Get hired by a company or university in the field you wish to research. Research. Copying the research of others is not research.

I just watched the Netflix Original Documentary The Social Dilemma, and I have some thoughts on this rather chilling assessment of the current and future netscape. I have often been disappointed by my social media posts seeming to gather so much more attention than my blog posts here on this site, and I always have…

What if, after your political career, you could depart the landscape of history with dignity? What if you could be known as someone who learned from the First World War and brokered a brilliant solution at the end of the Second World War? What if you left with a spotless record of dignified speeches, a…

The most difficult year since 9/11 is over, but the world seems to continue to deliver a steady stream of gut punches. The most recent of these is the unfathomably violent, vulgar and seditious actions by pro-Trump supporters in our nation’s capital. There is good news, however… Abby received her first dose of the Moderna…