Finding Direction: The Wind Vane Chronicles

We went to see "The Good Shepherd" last night, which is the story of how the CIA got its beginnings in this country back during and immediately following World War II.  It's a fictional account, but is "based on" reality, whatever that really means.  It was a very long movie presented in a very slow [...]

I slept really late yesterday morning, being tired out still from Christmas Eve and Christmas day, and then woke up at 5:20 a.m. this morning.  So - what's the deal with that, anyway?  How can I win?  What would you do?Me - it's the holidays, but I guess I'll blog!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~We got a tax bill from [...]

I'm sick.  But we've had a great holiday weekend anyway.  I think I'll live.  Our friends from Texas said when they got here and found out I had a cold, "You should have called us and told us not to come.  You should have let us know because we told you if you got sick [...]

Just down the road, between here and downtown Slidell there’s a nice city sports park that has long had nicely trimmed shrubs on a small rise of ground out in front spelling out the name "John Slidell" in greenery. I know it’s been there since I lived in Picayune, Mississippi, and I left there in […]

If you read Saturday’s thoughts, you know they had to do with dancing. Dancing with Jesus.
That’s a joyful thought.
So is the thought of dancing with our mates. How often to we do that, anyway? Probably not enough. Well, maybe one way to think of it is that there are many kinds of dances and marriage […]