The beans are showing signs that they’re ready to hang it up for the season. And the cherry tomatoes are starting to crack before they even turn red. But the sweet peppers appear to be doing their best as the summer comes to a close. I’ve been able to harvest some of the red-podded asparagus […]
I was spending time out on the deck with this morning’s reading from the Divine Hours devotional series, and it hit me: I need to move. No, I’m not talking here about changing my geography. This was the repeating scripture from this morning’s reading: “Purge me from my sin, and I shall be pure; wash […]
Why are people now so intent on denigrating the idea of interracial families? Insistence on some sort of racial purity, or on the inherent inability for parents of one race to race children of another is, by definition, racism. David French and his wife have been pilloried by both the left and the right for […]
Ashley Cleveland (with a somewhat famous friend) belts out an old school hymn…
A collection of folks at church has been going through a video series called ‘Basic’ after the post-worship fellowship time on Sunday mornings as the summer is winding down. The series features pastor and speaker Francis Chan, and interspersed with Chan speaking are snippets of a visual story that unfolds throughout the series. I’d had […]
I’m not sure what the official product life is of this guitar polish, but I bought it at the (long gone) downtown Lincoln location of Dietze Music probably 20 years ago, and it’s still going strong. (One can extrapolate from this that I haven’t cleaned my guitar nearly as often as I should have over […]
As most who have been following me on Facebook know, I made the decision to ditch my smartphone for a dumb phone, primarily because of unhealthy behaviors I was noticing in myself. I initially made this switch in the spring of 2017, moving to an old-school flip phone. Though I don’t do a ton of […]