With sincerest apologies to The Kinks and the great Lou Reed (RIP) sometimes lessons on the #RooseveltRiver come from the most unusual places. My brother “came out” over 30 years ago. It was a much different time and being the son of the Baptist minister in Southern Indiana could not have made an incredibly difficult […]
I don’t know what made me do it. I don’t know what I was thinking. Chalk it up to a 6th grader wanting to get attention. Boy, did THAT happen! It was nearing the end of my 6th Grade Year. Soon, I would be heading off to Junior High. My sixth grade teacher was the […]
Theodore Roosevelt? That Theodore Roosevelt? The one that was president like a hundred years ago? Yep, THAT Theodore Roosevelt. I spent 10 months canoeing with Teddy Roosevelt, dead about 100 years. How is that possible, you ask? Bear with me, and I will explain, and then I will begin to tell you about the adventure! It was […]
Wow! Where has the year gone? Seems like only yesterday we were kicking off 2013 and now we have said goodbye to it as we jump into 2014. To wrap up the year, I thought I would jump on the bandwagon and do a year end review of my own. Using a secret formula of […]
Christmas came and went. The Journey to Christmas is complete for another year. Before we move on and focus on 2014, I want to relate one more story in the Maranatha saga. As you know it started with the faint memory of a song in Maranatha, in this way, our Lord comes, continued with the […]
Snow gently falling – Check Deer feeding at the feeders – Check Squirrels frolicking in the snow – Check Christmas music on the stereo – Check Ingredients at the ready – Check Donut Man Apron donned – Check 100 Year Old Donut Machine pre-heated – Check Wait…something is missing. There is an empty stool this […]
My mother was a closet Jesus Freak! Who knew!??! Do you remember that group of hippies in the early seventies? OK, if you are too young to remember the early 70’s, look it up! Instead of sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll, they were all about Jesus, God and rock ‘n roll. My mom had […]
It all started on Thanksgiving day, a long, long time ago, in a beat up station wagon, somewhere on Interstate 65 and State Road 46 between Indianapolis and Nashville (Nashville, Indiana that is). My first wife, our two kids and I were heading to her mom’s place for Thanksgiving. The drive was going, well, it […]
Some Implications of Becoming a Large Organization.
Pop! In the distance the muted sound of a single gun shot. I crouched low, waiting. Pop! Pop-pop! Pop-pop-pop-pop! In the dark corner of the alley way, I could not be sure of the direction of the gun fire. It was obvious the fight was escalating. The sound echoed, it was difficult to tell how […]
