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1967, Albuquerque, New Mexico, I was 13 years old and beginning my first season playing little league baseball. I know, today parents start their kids in t-ball when they are just a few weeks old – just kidding – most of them are at least 3. Well, back in my day that didn’t happen. IContinue reading “Get Off the Bench!”

I might have mentioned in one of my previous posts that I was an aspiring musician when I was growing up. I started learning the organ when I was in second grade. My Mom was insistent that both me and my sister learn to play a musical instrument. My sister’s choice was the slide guitar.Continue reading “You Owe, You owe, So Off to Work You Go”

I titled this blog, God, Love, Life, Lessons. This entry is about a lesson. Micha 6:8 (ESV) – He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God. Some of the synonyms forContinue reading “A Lesson in Humility and Kindness”

Last week, Terrie and I decided to go see a movie. I never really bought into the whole social distancing, mask thing during Covid. It almost killed the movie theater industry and they are still trying to figure out how to get back to where they were before the bloody pandemic hit. I am relativelyContinue reading “Revival”

Today in The Denver Post there was an article about the “Newsies” of the past. Newsies were newspaper delivery kids and I was one of them. Growing up, my musical instrument of choice was the organ. You rarely see them anymore outside of traditional churches, classic rock bands or some ballparks. Back in the day,Continue reading “It Was Much More than Being a “Newsie””

Fred Astaire, an iconic American entertainer once said, “the hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.” Wikipedia defines etiquette as follows: Etiquette (/ˈɛtikɛt, -kɪt/) is the set of conventional rules of personal behaviour in polite society, usually in the form of an ethical code that delineates the expected and accepted social behaviours that accord with the conventions and normsobserved by a society, a social class,Continue reading “Etiquette and Manners in a World Without Them”

My Dad and Mom had a small, oval screen (19″ diagonal if I remember right), black and white TV. My father had always wanted to buy one of those new, color TVs. It would be a 25″ diagonal set, heck, you had to have one so you could watch the Rose Bowl Parade in color.Continue reading “Tubin’ it”

Sunday June 19, 2022 was an epic day for me. First, I celebrated the 46th anniversary of my marriage to an incredible woman. In today’s world of throw away marriages, 46 years is very unusual and I get asked all the time, “what is your secret?” Well, when looking for an anniversary card I mayContinue reading “Maybe the Most Important Four Steps You Will Ever Take”

Looking back on my life there are so many instances where a little patience on my part could have gone a long way. I can tell you so many stories where a little patience would have served me much better than the way I handled certain situations. Part of my problem stems from my tendencyContinue reading “Patience – It is a Virtue Worth Patiently Pursuing”