“Get out of here. Don’t you know you’re in the way?”
The children scattered, but they didn’t go far. Their faces began to reappear from behind their hiding places. A bit more cautiously this time, they went back to their game of tag. Scurrying youngsters, laughing and bumping into everything - that [...]
I’ve confessed before that I listen to country music. (I do live in Texas…) Today, while I was listening to country radio, a Kid Rock song came on (By the way, when did he shift genres to country?), and it set me thinking about his name.
Can you imagine having a friend who insisted [...]
As I’ve lounged on the couch and watched football today, I’ve been playing with an open-source Photoshop imitation. So far, I’m just learning to blend two images together, but I particularly liked this combination because it is to me a picture of what faith is.
Faith is, in a manner of speaking, coming to God [...]
Stunned, I watched as he did it again. This must’ve been the hundredth time I’d seen him do it. Satisfied, he walked back into his room and shut the door.
I went back to my book and tried to put his madness out of my mind, but it was only minutes before he came [...]
My mom’s parents live in rural Oklahoma. Rural meaning they live on 130 acres of farmland, ten minutes outside a town of a few hundred, and half an hour from the nearest hospital. I love getting to visit their farm, because the isolated setting allows me to relax much more deeply than does [...]
Let me preface this post with the same warning I used at the beginning of my last post relating to country music, over a year ago:
*Disclaimer: This post will discuss Country music. Anyone not from Texas, or anyone otherwise excused from enjoying Country/Western songs may experience slight nausea or a ringing in the ears after [...]
Everyone should have a hammock.
I haven’t found anything that compares to relaxing in the sun on a breezy day; there is no feeling that soothes the mind and the body so subtly. Whether you want to take a quick nap or you need a quiet place to think, a hammock is a marvelous solution. [...]
Truth be told, I am a closet Star Wars fan. I grew up reading every Star Wars book ever written, to this day I have a collection of over 80 of those paperbacks, and I even bought two new books this month with the intent of reading them this summer. I can’t put [...]
My sister and her close friend leave for their first year of college in less than three weeks, and they’re spending most of their preparation time together. Their excitement and energy is infectious; it only takes a couple minutes in the same room with my sister to become excited about life and her friend [...]
I find that in the simple things of life I am a creature of habit. Wallet and keys are always left in the same corner of the same drawer. Sandwhich wraps must be made the same way every time. And I absolutely must lay on my right side if I am to have any chance [...]
