Shampoo, Part 2
I promise this will be the last time I write about shampoo, but there has been a “to be continued” that I did not expect. As I write this a week after stating “I anticipate finishing off this bottle of White Rain today or tomorrow” the new bottle still…
Shampoo
It was in September 2021. I do not remember the exact date, but early in the month. I walked into a dollar store looking for something else and happened to notice that they sold shampoo. I had emptied the previous bottle a while ago and was getting…
Thanksgivings Past and Present
I always disappointed my mother – and it is good that she is not around to read this – when I said, “I don’t remember much of my early childhood.” However, the statement is absolutely true. Take Thanksgiving, for example. I really do not remember what we…
Old Dog … New Tricks
Some days I feel more like an old dog than others. Recently I met one of our neighbors I often see walking in the morning. When he told me he was 80 years old, I felt young. Then he told me that he had been retired for 20 years, and suddenly I felt…
Ex … ing
Can one use “exciting” and “exhausting” in describing the same events? And, while I am asking that question, can one discuss sewers, elections, and alarms at the same time? For me, all of this comes together in a blur.
Disoriented
It first happened (or so it seemed) this past Saturday in Ann Arbor. In fact, it happened twice – once when I parked and again when we were looking for the car. Someday someone else may tell you how a friend, the police, and family members saved me.
OOPS!
For more months that I can recall I have begun the process of writing this on Tuesday and/or Wednesday, in order to relieve the Thursday morning Thirst stress I had been experiencing by developing them entirely on Thursday mornings. But this week was…
What a Beautiful World!
Last week Monica and I had the pleasure of spending a few days at Boyne Mountain for a pastors’ conference. You might recall that the weather at the beginning of last week was very different from that of this week’s beginning. We had clear skies, crisp…
Apples – Good + Bad
I expect you have heard the expression “one bad apple spoils the whole bunch” (or some derivation of it), but what if the opposite were true? What if one good apple could save the whole bunch of rotten ones? Wow, can you imagine how that might change…
How Sweet
No, I am not talking about the Tigers’ record since they hired a new president – though it was sweet until they landed in Seattle. I am not even talking about the beautiful weather that closed out our summer and has carried us into autumn – though I…