Laguardia. This was the first time I ever had flown into New York. Leaving my first Spirit Air flight (more about that later), I wondered what NY would look like to me now, it being more than 20 years since I had last been there (with Justin and Mike on the train from DC). This [...]

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This is something God woke me up to write one winter night in 1982 after we had moved to Bowling Green. I found this along with the previous poem in a folder I had not looked at in a long time, out in the garage. The theme here is constant—a need to play with my [...]

We are decorating. We have emptied out the basement of Christmas things to examine for their worthiness to be so set upon our mantle and elsewhere, things I call them—ornaments, Santas, painted houses and Christmas gas stations—we did not even so much as get out last year because of (1) being in San Diego: (2) [...]

The remake of this fabled movie of the 50s comes out at Christmas starring Keanu Reeves. Hey, why not Samuel L. Jackson? It has one of my favorite robots, Gort, in it. I don’t know what the robot in the remake looks like, but I don’t think he could be scarier than Gort. One of [...]

That long hair and those bangs. She was meeting with all the new scholarship students, like me, and we were all hanging around, waiting to hear about our work assignments. She caught my eye immediately. I did not know her name but wanted to. She was smiling, she was excited, even exuberant about being in [...]

Thank you dear ones for letting me and mom embark on another leg of our anniversary tour this Fall. We head to San Diego early, early tomorrow morning (4AM) via Denver and Detroit, and will be marveling all the way in your wonderful generosity to send us to the land of sun, sand, and surf [...]

N o long blogs lately, because of Twitter I suppose. i will remedy that this weekend sometime after we return from a spontaneous desire to spend money. But lots to say about sons and daughters, baseball, planning for Kenya, and some books I have been reading. The latter is the problem. It should say “the [...]

I can’t adequately explain what it means to see Justin embrace a vision entirely of his own making and through his own dynamic willing it to happen, except to quote John 5, “because whatever the Father does the Son also does. . .” Jesus is trying to explain his mission and no doubt sees the [...]

Do we look devious? Up to no good? Spies? Aiming to misbehave? Do we look like ourselves? What does that shadow cast portend? Could it be our album cover? Who are we? Parents or pranksters? Wisecrackers? Capable of anything? Yes, that’s just what we want you to think. Well beyond your expectations, we’re younger inside [...]