Category: Faith
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Safe at Home – Part 2
Unless you own stock in face masks, hand sanitizers, and ZOOM, you probably cannot wait for 2021 to arrive. Such anticipation carries with it the hopes of a vaccine and life returning to normal. Though I suspect the new normal will only be a state of constant change. The negative consequences of this pandemic have…
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Safe At Home
A title like “Safe at Home” sounds more like a commentary on life in the midst of the 2020 pandemic. Not exactly. Keep reading. It was the bottom of the ninth in the seventh and final game of the 1992 Major League Baseball’s National League Championship Playoff series. The Atlanta Braves, hoping to return to…
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The Blessing of Old Friends
I am a man blessed. When I stop and count my blessings, it takes a while. A wife, children, and grandchildren I adore, Having had a deeply satisfying career, Being born Southern, Currently having reasonably good health, Having a golf game that’s not too embarrassing, A retirement filled with joy and laughter, Of…
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Things I Can’t Say No To
I can say NO to Brussel sprouts, chicken livers, and Gummy Worms. That doesn’t require much discipline or willpower. I can say NO to robocalls and any calls that CallerID identifies as “Unknown.” I can say NO to cutting the grass in the 98 degree sauna-like heat of a Georgia summer. I don’t…
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I Agree with Kermit
There’s a cute image of Kermit the Frog floating around the internet. He’s laying on his back shouting, “I’m not turning my clock back on Sunday. The last thing we need is an extra hour of 2020!!!” I agree with you Kermit. I refuse to give this year one more freaking hour. Of all days,…
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The Elephant, The Donkey or The Lamb?
We are days away from the November 3rd, 2020 Presidential election. One thing is certain, come November 4th, given the polarized state of the political atmosphere, it will be a day of hooray for some and dismay for others. Equal shouts of celebratory cheers and mournful jeers will no doubt fill the air. One can…
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Embracing the Great Paradox
I had a boss one time who nicknamed me The Renaissance Man. No sooner had I inhaled his verbal, ego-boosting dose of adrenaline did he teasingly add, “That’s because I never knew anyone from Georgia Tech who could write a sentence, much less a paragraph.” Ouch. To him, I was a walking, talking, writing…
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Fight Like A Girl
As a ten-year-old boy, being told that I threw a ball like a girl was the ultimate insult. Adolescents can be cruel with their verbal barbs. For a young pubescent male, doing anything “like a girl” was akin to being called a sissy. But today, a phrase like “Fight Like A Girl” carries a new…
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A Ticket of Grace
With Halloween just two weeks away, I am beginning to get the urge to shout “BOO” to 2020 in hopes it will go away. This year feels like a daily reliving of Groundhogs Day and Halloween as we wear a mask EVERY day. Come to think of it, 2020 feels like one of those haunted…
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Praying for Tears
In the 1992 movie, A League of Their Own, Tom Hanks plays the Manager of a women’s baseball team. One of the most quoted lines of that movie is when Hanks shouts at a player, “There is no crying in baseball!” Frankly, I think most men feel the same about life. Shedding tears is not a…
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