It was twenty-five years ago tonight that for the very first time I was sent to a psychiatric hospital. The bipolar disorder had started du...

And hey, I've got a dog too. The Tramp.  Charlie Chaplin's classic character.  Seemingly forever making his way from one set of expe...

Writing my book compelled me to examine a lot of situations that have come about in my life.  Especially where other people are involved.  I...

So last weekend after vowing to write an op-ed piece every week this year, I composed the first of the series.  It exists, honest!  I submit...

Writing is my calling.  Writing is my gift, ever since my ninth grade English teacher told me that on our last day of class.  It is somethin...

Every year at Christmas I used to leave this site for a few days.  Just sort of to take in the holiday and enjoy it with friends and family....

I have a lot of fond recollections stemming from  A Christmas Story , that 1983 film about nine-year-old Ralphie Parker (delightfully played...

This is one of my favorite scenes in motion picture history.  From the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian.   Conan (Arnold Schwarzenegger) has ju...

In searching around for churches in this area, obviously I'm looking at their websites.  I'm studying a few things, particularly the...

The church I visited today had a baptismal ceremony. And as I've thought for a very long time now about the sacrament and is often the c...

First photograph March 31, 1974 Moses Cone Hospital Greensboro, North Carolina   For a very long time I've believed that if you can make...

Tomorrow is Ash Wednesday: the beginning of the Lenten season. There have been some years when I have observed Lent on this blog.  The first...

Every so often Matthew 7:7 comes to mind.  The verse reads (from the New International Version): "Ask and it will be given to you; seek...