Dear Dad; Do you remember the Saturday morning when I was fourteen and a group of young people from First Church in Newark was going to Old Man’s Cave? I wanted to go. You got up early. You made me lunch. You gave me a little spending money. You drove me to the church. The […]
K2
K2—Kyle Kenneth—visited for a couple hours this afternoon. He wanted to play with Grandpa’s football. 🙂
Grieving Alone
Junior High was painful experience for me. There were some who accepted me or at least tolerated me in my school, but the ones who rejected me did so in such a hurtful and public way that I felt universally despised. Without a loving, stable family I would have despaired.
For Lois
My lover will drive away within an hour and we will be apart for two days. My heart is sad about that. This morning while watching Steven Curtis Chapman family powerfully testify of the faith that sustains them through the loss of their daughter, I came across this beautiful song. A few years ago a […]
Football
Last Saturday we signed Wesley up for football. Some of my happiest memories are of a robust intra-mural football experience at Moody. When fall comes ’round I always have an urge to clean the garage and listen to The Ohio State University Marching Band on the radio, but there is something that is infinitely more […]
How to Build a Ship
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, a French writer, said, “If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood, and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
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