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Trampling the Tulips
I’m a fruit and vegetable guy anyway. I like to harvest something. I want to pick it and bring it to the dinner table. So usually every year I plant at least tomatoes and green beans. I’ll move out from there to onions and squash. Someone else can plant the flowers. I like looking at […]
A Time and a Place
My mind drifted to our away football trips. It actually drifted about something drifting, which you’ll see. With everybody piled into the bus with equipment, luggage, and school books, it became rather claustrophobic. But then, these were guys, boys, big ones, from divergent socio-economic environments, and one that had stomach problems on a certain occasion. […]
It’s All Relative
I’ve got post basketball scream throat. This is the third game in a period of a week of which I would cause heart palpitations to a speech therapist. My son plays and I coach the team. I view sports in many ways similarly to art and music. As a game, basketball would seem to have […]
Big and Ambiguous
If you are a parent, perhaps you don’t know much about the seven deadly sins, but you at least know about the seven deadly excuses. Let’s recite a few together: “I forgot.” “I don’t remember.” “I didn’t know that.” “I didn’t get what you meant.” Who can be wrong when no one can know what’s […]
As Long As They’re There
I was racking my brain. Let’s just stop right there. Is “racking” a billiards term? Like racking the balls before you break them. If so, we’ve got trouble right here in River City. Is it muckraking? A term, I think, originated by Teddy Roosevelt in the days of Ira Tarbell and yellow journalism. Is it […]
For Crying Out Loud
Sticks and stones may not work, but tears, well, two words: very effective. Headline: Democrats Fold Up Tent in Supreme Court Hearings When Mrs. Alito Cries. You made her cry Senator Kennedy, move back three spaces. We can all at least be happy he didn’t have her ride over the Chappaquiddick bridge with him. Game […]
Strange
I hope you don’t think it strange that this thought occurred to me: It is really strange when people stop thinking strange things are strange. A couple of years ago, I tried to do a nifty thing with a plane flight that made us transfer between airports in Washington, DC on their public rail, the […]
Reformed What?
I enjoy reformation. I do the barbecue at our house. I cook meat outdoors. Sometimes my wife is gone and reminds me to start the coals at such-and-such time. I’m usually working, and I rise from another task to grab the charcoal bag from the garage in my right hand, with my left hand take […]
Paul Bunyan in the Bible?
When I was kid, which wasn’t that long go according to latest studies, I remember a folk song sung (not to be confused with Sing-Sing) with lyrics that started, “Daniel Boone Was a Man, Was a Big Man.” You may remember the song if you were born in a log cabin like me. OK, so […]
Wonderful Counsel
When Isaiah went to Ahaz with counsel, he didn’t want it in Isaiah 7. When Isaiah offered him a validating sign, he didn’t want it, same chapter. He had his mind made up. He liked his idea of an alliance with Assyria against Israel and Syria. He wasn’t a man that was much for counsel […]
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