Okay, so we recently celebrated another April Fools Day. I get sucked into someone’s prank every year thinking that, as The Who sang many...

Which would you prefer after you die? That you miss no one left behind or that no one misses you? Both responses are a bit sad and would...

A few years ago, I wrote a chapter in a book about what things tend to give us enjoyment . I and twenty-three other writers were asked to...

Do you like surprises? Some of you might say, “NEVER!” Others would respond that it depends on the kind, how and when. That makes sense....

Today we and millions of others have an opinion, insight, point of view, argument, disagreement or other perspective, right? Some of them...

Thanks For The Bookmarks   The other morning I was reading from a devotional book that I hadn’t used for a while. As I opened it to a new...

I don’t know about you but most of us, including me, have had recent and past words said to us that hurt a lot, right? They were so...

Okay, so California is a fascinating, intriguing, beautiful, huge, weird, eclectic, fast-paced, did I mention weird, tech-rich,...

In 2014 at the University of Texas, Austin, Admiral William McRaven gave a most distinctive and memorable commencement address. His main...

I’m a mountain guy. When I was a kid, my parents took our family everywhere from the Canadian Rockies to the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to...

I didn’t watch. I rarely do anymore. Watch what, you ask? Any of the myriad awards and tribute television programs out there these days....

Hey, no matter where you are listening to this vlog or reading my blog, take a big breath and let it out slowly. Yep, you know what I’m...

Have you ever been watching or even participating in an amateur or professional game where someone unintentionally scored a goal on their...

Some of you are old enough to remember and/or have even heard one of the greatest speakers and commentators of all time, Paul Harvey. He...

So Christmas has come and gone, presents have been opened and young children are still playing with the boxes their toys came in. The...

So what’s your favorite Christmas carol?  O Come All Ye Faithful? Away in A Manger? Silent Night? It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like...

Gambling is all the rage these days, isn’t it? And by rage, I mean that when people lose a lot of money, they can easily become yes very...

It's early Christmas morning. It's still dark and no other creatures (or kids) are stirring at our house and in four or five years here...

I’m sure that within the hundreds of regular followers of this vlog, there’s a wide range of worship practices, styles, habits and...

Okay, so I'm now  75 years old and ready to take on the next year with continued energy, the third year of a replacement kidney and the...