The World May Never Know…

“Mr. Owl, how many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop?” “Well, let’s see…” I was clearing thru some old files in my office recently, and the memories came flooding back. Hard decisions, some public, some handled and then buried….good decisions that no one truly understood….and the [...]

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Life isn’t always fair

Rules are rules, and sometimes nothing you can do will change them. Laws are laws, and the same holds true. The Oklahoma Secondary Sports Athletic Association has rules, and they are meant to protect the sanctity of secondary school sports. I heard an advertisement on the radio yesterday for OSSAA promoting years and years of [...]

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Something smells fishy

Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created mankind in his own [...]

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Something you can’t ignore

They call her “Gitzen Girl”. More on that in a moment. Yes, it is that time of year, again. It’s Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week. It’s been a year since the writing about Suffering in the Shadows, and Spoons, and such like. As I mentioned it earlier today, Little Frau said she was ignoring it, [...]

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The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Many people have set out to write accounts about the events that have been fulfilled among us. They used the eyewitness reports circulating among us from the early disciples. (Luke 1:1-2) Richard Wright pointed out to us this morning in a discussion of Luke’s account that inspiration does not necessarily require originality. Touché. Arigatou gozaimasu [...]

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Wait; you forgot your sword…

“Our little baby’s all grown up and savin’ China…”. I could not have expressed my sentiments any better than our mythical friend “Mushu”, and like him, I don’t do that “tongue thing”, at least I hope not. Anyway, Baby Girl #1 (and one of the best two young ladies on the planet, may I add) [...]

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A tale of forbidden love

It is intoxicating. And, I might add, my family is insanely jealous of the relationship. It began many years ago, before the current Edmond Bings ever knew me. She hails from Texas. But, in more recent days, the girl gets around. To this day, I keep her hidden. Allow me to explain. You see, my [...]

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Take it back

“God is subtle, but He is not malicious. I cannot believe that God plays dice with the world.” – Albert Einstein. I’ve long thought that to be true, but now wonder if He is not often times speaking to us more directly. Take a random walk with me, and see if you agree. Many of [...]

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Beach-combing

Beach combing. It is a lost art, in this era of digital entertainment, marathon shopping, and amusement parks. I have been amazed on the recently completed trip to see how many “attractions” are built on the way to or even on sight at natural beauty destination spots like the ocean shore. Or is it a [...]

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Rogue agent: Unencumbered from the womb.

I went jogging on the beach this morning. Go ahead: begin humming the tune from “Chariots of Fire” here. I will even insert some bad Irish accent dialogue to go along with it: “whenn A runn, A feell HIS strenth“. And, yes, one man’s slow motion is another man’s full speed. The family was sleeping [...]

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